MOSLEM ANGER
ITALIAN AIR RAIDS LONDON, 23rd October. Reports continue to come from Moslem countries telling of the intense anger which the Italian bombing of Bahrein and Saudi Arabia has caused. In Aden, in addition to prayers in the mosque for a British victory, special petitions were offered calling down destruction on Signor Mussolini personally.
The leader of one tribe in northwest India has called on tribesmen to abandon feuds so that they may be ready to defend the Islamic countries against Axis designs.
ALEXANDRIA ATTACKED
[U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] ALEXANDRIA, 23rd October. Heavy gunfire for an hour and a half drove off Italians planes which raided Alexandria for the fifty-fifth time since the outbreak of the war and the fourth time within 30 hours. Bombs fell on the outskirts, but there were no casualties or damage.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 5
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