Rome, June 23.
Italian planes increased their activity over the Mediterranean last night, bombing Alexandria, where the British fleet is concentrated, and Bizerta, in Tunisia, the Italian High Command announced today Despite heavy anti-aircraft barrages in the vicinity of Alexandria, Italian planes successfully bombed British naval units and air bases there, the communique stated. All of the Italian planes returned from this raid.
Other units of the Italian air force soared over the Mediterranean, attacking Allied shipping and also heavily bombing the port of Bizerta, it was stated, Fighting on the north African front continued, the communique said, with Italian forces breaking through British tank and armoured car divisions. A large Allied bomber was also shot down over the north African front yesterday, it was claimed.
British planes staged a heavy attack on the town of Trapani, East Africa, damaging scores of private homes and killing 20 persons, the Italian communique said. Thirty-eight persons were wounded in the it was undertood.—
Demanding that Great Britain should uphold her solemn oath of union with France, French residents yesterday demonstrated outside the British Consulate-General at Saigon and requested the British Consul-General to grant them permission to enlist for immediate duty with the Allied forces, according to information received in Shang i last night in the B.B.C. broadcast.
The demonstration, according to the broadcast, continued until the British—Consul-General addressed the crowd from the balcony and assured them that their demands would be conveyed to the British Government, Duke of Windsor to Go Back to England London, June 23, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will leave for England from Madrid soon, usually reliable sources ae ported here today, If the Duchess returns to England with her husband it will be the*j first time she has entered the country since her marriage to the Duke: of Windsor in the summer of 1997.
The Windsors, meanwhile, arrived in Zaragossa, Spain, yesterday en route to Madrid from France, according to reports from that city.—United Press,
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