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GREECE BLAMES ITALY Sinking Of Cruiser By Submarine TORPEDO FRAGMENT SHOWS ORIGIN (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) ATHENS, August 21. (Received August 22, 2 a.m.) A torpedo fragment removed from the torpedoed Greek cruiser Helle bore the words “Turin 1930,” revealing that the submarine was Italian. ITALIAN BLOCKADE Italy has announced an intensification of her blockade of British territory and has warned, all neutral governments to keep their ships away from the Italian war zone comprising an extensive area around the shores of British possessions and protectorates in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, British colonial coasts in Africa and also the coast of Egypt. ITALIAN BASES RAIDED Italian aerodromes in the Middle East were the object of attacks by squadrons of the South African Air Force, says, a message from London. Aerodromes in Abyssinia and Italian Somaliland were raided and a number of direct hits was scored on hangars and other objectives. One of the South African planes failed to return from these raids.
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Southland Times, Issue 24211, 22 August 1940, Page 8
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