PROBABLE MOVE
MEDITERRANEAN AREA ENEMY RAIDS PREDICTED SEA AND AIR SQUADRONS (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 26. Discussing probable Nazi moves, the Cairo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that daring raids on the Egyptian coast cannot be ruled out. The British communications are so long that they may tempt the enemy to try spectacular sea and air raids. The correspondent adds that both the Italian and French Fleets are numerically strong. Thfe Italians still possess 5 battleships, 2 eight-inch gun cruisers, (?) six-inch gun cruisers, 30 destroyers and an undefinable number of submarines. The French battleship Dunkerque, which was damaged by the British in 1940, is lying at Oran, repaired, making the French Fleet comparable in strength with any Mediterranean force. The French Navy’s backbone, says the correspondent, is not, battleships, but the great fast cruiser fleet, in addition to which France has 30 destroyers, 43 torpedo boats and 68 submarines.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24800, 27 December 1941, Page 7
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151PROBABLE MOVE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24800, 27 December 1941, Page 7
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