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FIRST

INSIST ON

ED

Daisy Brand

Australia's Choices.

BUTTER

OF CRIPPLING

RAID ON ITALY'S NAVY

TARANTO SPITFIRE

GETS

SECOND DOSE

Smarting under their previous disastrous, ex- perience of a British raid, ships' guns and port bat- teries at Taranto opened a terrific barrage when R.A.F..bombers arrived on Wednesday night.

The visitors, huivever, pro- ceeded with their programme and spotting warships in the harbour in the clear moonlight night, they swooped down from the eastern part to the main docks in the Inner harbour which were heavily bombed with high explosives anc incendiaries.

At one time seven big were blazing together.

fires

„On returning, the pilots report-

ed that naval oll tanks and de-

stroyer pens were hit and that

one stick of high explosives feli

along a wall of the docks where destroyers were tied up..

his way home, saw Taranto

Concentrated

SQUADRON'S Torpedo Attack From

TRIUMPH

Twelve Spitfires of. one squadron destroy-. ed 13 of the 15 Junk- ers dive-bombers brought down yester-" day, according to the Air Ministry News. Service.

Massed Machines

By Ralph Walling, Reuter's Air Correspondent.

I AM ABLE TO GIVE THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE RECON. STRUCTION OF THE BRILLIANT ACTION AT TARANTO, FROM TALKS WITH THE BEST INFORMED NAVAL

It is possible to say for instance that the

They were evident-CIRCLES. ly attempting to at- tack Dover Harbour. -Reuter. p00000

STUKAS

RUN RIGHT

INTO MESS

RUMANIAN FORCES

raid produced a startlingly successful con FORCES summation of planes which had been pre- DE-MOBBED

pared for several weeks before.

From the information so far available, the air- craft-carriers "Eagle" and "Illustrious" (the latter mentioned for the first time as having been brought into commission) are believed to have stopped, under cover of darkness, almost in the mouth of the Gulf of Taranto,

island of Pantellaria,

RUMANIAN ARMED FORCES, MOBILISED AT THE TIME OF

THE CESSION OF BESSARABIA AND NORTHERN BUKOVINA, TO THE SOVIET, ARE BEING

DEMOBILISED UNDER A DEGREE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER GENERAL AN TONESCU, SAYS A-BUCHAREST- MESSAGE TO THE GERMAN NEWS AGENCY. VER Here torpedo-carrying gna and Durazzo, Cagliari, and the

The demobilisation begins at aircraft were hauled up between Malta and North Africa.

half-way 2 pm to-day.

The decree was signed by Thirteen enemy dive to the flight. deck and

The Italians have not yet said left for his visit to Rome

General Antonescù before he but bombers and one fighter made ready for a daring, anything about the attack on a was not published until yester

convoy in the Straits of Otranto, day. were destroyed off the unprecedented

in which one Italian supply. ship

The message was sunk, two set on fire; a fourth Rumanian Minister for Defence South-East Coast of Eng-ture.

damaged and the two escorting is authorised to call up reservists destroyers sent flying home, one of and make requisitions in case them damaged.--Reuter.

or nced-Reifer,

One of the raiders when on land yesterday before lighted up by an immense hash from an exceptionally great

explosion-Reuter.

LORRAINE EVENTS STIR VICHY

adven-

The Italians had to be surprised they could make any at- and to gain the maximum possible de- tack, announces the Air effect the attack. had to be

Livered by an many planes as Ministry and Ministry for could possibly concentrate on the Home Security.

The single heavy bomber which crossed the coast yesterday morn- ing was immediately shot down. Two British fighters are missing but the pilót of one is safe.

Four More Later

Four more enemy aireratt

were shet down yesterday, according 18 latest reports given in an Air Ministry communique.

Expulsion of French-

This makes 19 destroyed al speaking inhabitants together.

It is also confirmed that two from Lorraine has been enemy bombers were destroyed proceeding at the rate of on Wednesday night. Both pilots seven traïnloads daily. fighter planes which were lost

are now safe of the two British

According to a communique-is- | Renter,

- sued in ... Vichy yesterday, “The German authorities in Lorraine. „Invited. French-speaking inhabi- tants • fo choose "between being transferred· "to" Polandˇor ~ being sent to France.

FRENCH WOMEN'S CORPS

"Our "compatriots have chosen France. Since November 11, theirFrench women in Eritainare expulsion, has been proceeding at to form a special corps to help the rate of Ave to seven train-the Free French cause. Toads, dailyme

farget at one time.

This entailed takes-off in ra: pid succession and probably formation Bying in groups of at least half a dozen 'planes.

Afterwards the 'planes were re- quired to enter formation again to find their floating base and land on the aircraft-carriers,

Greatest Skill

7

For all this to be accomplished in darkness, without giving away the presence of the aircraft-car- riers required the greatest skill of well-trained plibts.

The character of the damage inflicted on the Italian battle- ships Indicates that torpedoes chiefly were used, hitting the warships below water at their “most thinly protected points av they released their torpedoes to. wards, the darkoned sides of

battleships and cruisers, foaming through the moonlight,

All but two of the attacking

It will be equivalent to the planes made a happy landing on nauthorised quarters have British Women's Auxiliary Serthe deck of their mother ships stated that this is an accordance vices and member will principally and their crews were delighted with an "agreement between the act as cooks, clerks, typists and beyond measure at the success of French and German governments chaffeurs, relieving men of the the first major nerlál torpedo, at

"The French Government Free French Forces for

tack of this war.—Reuter. gives the most formal dental to service. Reuter

this suggestion; No measure of

"this kind was evar disousand in

the Franco-German" talku:.

active

Italian Communique

The Italians admitted the at-

and also mentioned ralds on Bolo-

"The French Government · hins Commission's attention to these tack in a communique yesterday drawn the German: -Armistice facts."-Reuter.

adds that

tho

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