Cairo, July 8.
Royal Air Force planes of the Middle Bast command heavily bomb erded Palermo harbour in Sicily on Sunday, scoring direct hits on large vessels, 'Two direct bomb hits were scored onan 8,000-ton vessel while other hills were made on a §,000 and a 2.000- ton ship, 'One 1.000-ton vessel was sot fro, resulting in heavy explosions while another 5,000-ton -ship was hit by, Incendiary' bombs.
"pilots and rear-gunners' of our aircraft heavily. machine gunned cruisers in the harbour." the com= munique added,—United Press.
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