TEN AXIS SHIPS SUNK
SUPPLY VESSELS FOR TUNISIA SUBMARINES IN MEDITERRANEAN. ALLIED BOMBERS ASSIST. United Press Assn.— By Electric Telegraph—Copy right. LONDON, Dec- 23. Allied submarines, . light naval forces and plajres have inflicted heavy losses on Axis supply ships in the past few days, no fewer than ten ships having been destroyed. Two supply vessels en route to Tunis were torpedoed by a submarine, while another submarine off Sardinia sent two torpedoes into an escorting destroyer and sank two supply ships. Light naval forces or> patrol sank a small supply ship, while bomber;-, based on Malta sank two out of four supply ships in a heavily escorted convoy. Naval Albacores torpedoed escort vessels of another convoy and also scored hits on ships ill the convoy. Bomliers based on Cyrenaica raided Tunis and dropped bombs on two ships in the harbour, both of which wer© seen to blow up and disintegrate.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15233, 24 December 1942, Page 3
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