Nice, June 12.
While Italian aircraft, on the morning of June 11, were active bombing British military objectives in Malta, the last units of the Italian troops took up their positions, according to the first Italian war' communique broadcast from Rome this evening, "From midnight of the night of June 10-11 the last units of the Italian army took up their positions," the communique declared.
"In the early hours of June 11 the Italian air force violently bombed military objectives on the British island of Malta, causing a number of fires at British air bases. The Italian air force was also active over North Africa.
"An attempted British air attack on Cirenaica (the Eastern half of Libya) was repulsed and a number of British planes shot down," the Italian communique claimed in' conclusion.—Havas.
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