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Milan. Some of the stocks of rubber in the Pirelli works were destroyed. A large quantity of the stock from these works has been transferred to Trieste and Syracuse as a result of our raids.

Naples. The last raid on Naples is said to have been success to the famous raid on Taranto by the Fleet Air Arm. sustained damage that will require at least six weeks to repair. casualties among the personnel, including the Commander.

Five mine-sweepers were sunk.

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Seventy people were killed by one bomb that hit the Ilva ammunition works. The aircraft factory sustained two hits, and traffic was held up for ten hours by damage to the Naples-Bari railway line.

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Norway.

On the 27th December the Norwegian Steamer Arnfinn Jarl, of 1,200 tons, was sunk at Egersund as a result of air attack.

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Mining.

In October a cargo boat of 5,000 tons, loaded with pigs requisitioned by the Germans from the Bretons, sank off St. Nazaire on its departure for Germany. Many pigs were washed up on the coast and collected by the inhabitants.

In November an armed merchantman was sunk near Lorient. Photographs taken by Bomber Command disclose the presence of a sunken motor vessel about 2,000 yards from the coast due West of Julianadorf, near Helder. The vessel is about 540 feet long.

A photographic reconnaissance of the Kiel Canal confirms the obstruction reported therein and the presence of a vessel sunk across the canal can be seen. It was alleged by the Germans that the sinking took place as a result of a collision, but this is so unlikely that, coupled with the fact that the sinking took place at the exact position in the canal where a mine had been laid, it is con- sidered that the blockage of the canal was a successful result of a mine-laying operation.

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