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FIVE ITALIAN WARSHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM IN IONIAN SEA GUARDS Without A

Without A Single INVASION Casualty Or Damage PORTS

ON AXIS LINERS

The number of Italianį ships on which armed American guards have been placed is now stated to be 28, including the 23,000-ton liner "Conte Biancamano," at Cristo- bal, Panama.

Guards have also been placed on two German ships, namely the "Aracuna," at Port Everglades, Florida, and the "Pauline Frieder- ich hat Boston.

Discovery of "wholesale damage" on some of these ships was announced by Mr. Herbert

To British Fleet STRAFED

The

German

invasion

|ports along the Channel

R.A.F. bombers after dusk last night.

LATER NEWS OF THE NAVAL AND AIR BATTLE IN THE MEDI- TERRANEAN SHOWS THAT BRITAIN HAS STRUCK THE GREATEST were heavily attacked by BLOW OF THE WAR AT SEA.

Five Italian warships ; three cruisers and two destroyers have been sent to the bottom without a single casualty or the slight-

est damage to the British Fleet.

PRESIDENT ENDS

HIS HOLIDAY

Gaston, Assistant Secretary to Having concluded

the Treasury.

were "purely protective.”

his holiday

dent Roosevelt, he added, had ap-ton, says Reuter from New York. proved the steps taken.

Reuter

ZENIT

It is officially confirmed that the enemy cruisers sunk were the Fiume, Pola and Zara, and that a large and a small destroyer were

He said the measures taken in cruise on the pres dential yacht also destroyed. consequence of this discovery Potomac, President Roosevelt yes- News of the successful outcome of Ad- Presi- terday left by train for Washing-miral Sir Andrew Cunningham's operations is described in the following communique is- sued by the Admiralty in London last evening: "The Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean. re- ports that no casualties or damage were sustained by His Majesty's ships throughout the recent opera- tion.

Naval Battle

Survivors In Greece

Survivors have been landed

י

at

Piroeus

in

from four of the five Italian ships sunk the eastern Mediterranean by British wor- ships.

Three Italian cruisers, the Fiume, Pola and Zara, and an Italian destroyer are re- presented among these survivors.

They were brought in by a Greek destroy- er. Reuter.

Call To U.S.

Catholic Germany

STRIKES ENDING

The strikes in various

"Some of our aircraft are, how- ever, not accounted for.

"So far it is confirmed that the |following. Italiamı warships have

been sunk:

"The 8-inch gun cruisers Fiume, Pola and Zara,

"The large destroyer Vincenzo Gioberto, and

"The destroyer Maestrade. "Further details are awaited." 10,000 Tons Each The Fiume, which was heavily armed, carried eight 8-inch guns among her armament, and her complement was 705 officers and ratings.

MOBILISATION CONTINUES IN

A call to Catholic Ger-United States defence in- YUGOSLAVIA

many to awake and face dustries show some im-

the pagan

tendencies provement.

which the Nazi regime is

It was announced yesterday

Extra military, classes were called up in Yugs. spreading throughout the that a settlement has been reach-Slavia last night,

ed in Bethlehem Steel Company's Reich occupied territory, works at Johnston, Pennsylvania. It is announced in Bel- was made in a broadcast Congress of Industrial Organ-grade that this action is by the Vatican radio yes Chicago, agreed to return to work

isation workers, at a meeting in a precautionary measure terday.

immediately at four International to increase the defensive The announcer declared that Harvester Company factories forces watching the fron- the religious situation in Germany which have been closed for eight tiers. Was highly unsatisfactory arid weeks, Reuter.. -

coridembed the Nazi attitude to

the Church-in outspoken terms. ·

The threat of State religion. youth, deprived of proper religious hung over all religious life in

instruction..

A fifth batch of Italian civil- lana left Belgrads by express for Milan on Baturday night. Except for diplomats and jour- Even in schools, where a priest | nalists, it is stated, most of the The announcer said lecturers, is in theory admitted, he often Germaris and Italians in Bel- teachers and propagandists Incul- finds the door closed to him.-grade will have left by to-mor- cate. pagan principles into German Reuter.

row.. Router.

theas territories.

All three cruisers were of 10,000

Explosions were heard from the British side and fires seen in the direction of Calais.

were

Earlier, during daylight, fro- quent patrols of R.A.F. fighters: seun over the Straits of.. Dover, flying across the Chané, nel towards the French coast. Nothing was seen of any Ger- man aircraft from the Kent coast bomber, which except for one was driven off.

The R.A.F.'s swoop on the German invasion ports along the

and.: French coast was intensive heavy.

Fierce Fires

an

Watchers on the British side of excellent the Channel had view. Bombs and

gun flashes The destroyer Vincenzo Giober- could be seen along the entire to was completed in 1936 and had coast from Calais to Dunkirk,

tons.

a displacement of 1,700 tons and and the clouds above Calais were. a complement of 157.

soon coloured by the glare

of.

many heavy explosions could clearly be heard.-Reuter.

of

The Maestrade had similar arm-fierce fires, while the thud

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