Rome. Sept. 11 The Italian Air Force yesterday raided Jaffa, in the Holy Lund, dropping bombs on "harbour installations ad storehouses" and starting "large conflagrations," according to an Italian communique issued here last night.
Direct hits were made on an oil refinery at Haifa on Manda; the communique asserted. mot affected by ihe explosion. The roof was pierced a number of places by flying debi ind a number of skylights was damaged, including skylight to the picture gallery. from which however all valuable pictures had been removed to a place of safety.
After the explosion, it was found that one piece of masonry had been blown completely over the Palace and had landed on a flagstaff in the courtyard over 300 feet away.
The explosion was responsible for some curious incidents. For instance, the windows of the Kings bathroom were smashed but windows of a room nearer the explosion were untouched. One of the windows of the Princes nursery in the northest corner of the Palace was also blown in. Windows on the first and second floors appeared to have suffered more severely than on the ground flour. Many of these were blown completely out, while me on the first floor were untouched, and on the, northern side of the swimming pool, which received the full force of the blast, some windows were not even cracked.
It is understood that the wire netting covering the P: e windows was found to be very effective in keeping splinters of glass from the rooms.
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