German Efforts to Break Up Convoy in Mediterranean Prove Unavailing London, Feb. 25. of the Fleet continued to maintain communications along Libyan coast yesterday after the main Battle Fleet, in a four-day operation in the Central Mediterranean, had beaten off German dive-bombers and successfully covered the passage of convoys.
Making a determined effort to break up and sink a British convoy under the powerful protection of British warships, dive-bombers operating from Italian bases attacked the Fleet near the scene of the former unsuccessful attack against the aircraft carrier The British ships were undamaged, and the German planes were driven off with losses.
Yesterday's Italian High Command communique claimed that a German lr formation attacked a British naval Squadron in the eastern Mediterrancan, hitting one big warship so serously that she probably sank, There was no confirmation in London of this claim, "Th the most recent attack, the Germans had as target another alrcraftcarrier, but probably stil smarting from the heavy toll exacted by fight ors from the Tlustrious in the earller battle, enemy planes confined themselves' to dropping bombs at other units of the fleet,
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