BENGHAZI SHELLED
ENEMY SHIPS DAMAGED TWO VESSELS CAPTURED (Rec. 10 p.m.) RUGBY, May 10. An Admiralty communique says: "During the early hours of Thursday morning our naval forces carried out an attack on the harbour of Benghazi, and hits were observed on enemy shipping alongside. Two enemy supply ships were intercepted while approaching the liarbour and destroyed. One was of 3COO tons and the other was an ammunition ship of between 5000 and 6000 tons. It was blown to bits." A Cairo communique states: "There is nothing important to report at Tobruk. .Active patrolling by mechanised columns is continuing at Solium." Canal Zone Bombed A communique from Cairo stales that early yesterday the enemy made an air raid on the Suez Canal zone for the second time in a week. Slight damage was done, There were no casualties.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24604, 12 May 1941, Page 5
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