Martyred Malta, which has suffered approximately 150 Italian air raid: since Premier Mussolini declared wa: against Britain, was still smiling anc hitting back at the Italians today al though approximately 200 person have been killed and 400 wounded here thus far, states a United Pres. correspondent.
Italian raids averaged about eigh daily during the first month of Italy' participation in the war, but fell of to four daily during the second month of the war. Since Itak entered the war, however, Malta ha: only seen eight days without at leas' one Italian air raid.
These raids have cost the Italian approximately 35 planes and 46 pilots Yesterday I toured the bombed areas and also saw the air rale shelters. The scenes I saw vividly recalled the havoc wrought in Spali by Italian planes during the Spanisl civil war.
I was told that on one occasion a: many as sixty planes raided this rocky fortress which covers ninety square miles and is inhabited by approximately 250,000 people. The Italian planes, I was told, usually fly at about 18,000 feet, can farely be heard from the ground and seldom engage in power diving—United zarer hoe aca
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