The Archive · 1941

Two Bombers Downed

Several bombs were dropped at ott Forge without, serous emag [ilia i planes Tater bombed Port roman ited) Ae' and wounding Lia slat dew' toward, the Cult of cut the reports i, "he planes met Ave Greek faht-Sve Pag riy and the OF bal fe, oan bombers and one Greek fighter were shot

said, down ever Cape Kords, it was The remaining Italian bombers turned back, dropping several bombs on an unnamed village near Janina, Killing two and wounding five, the reports. said.

Ilallan reinforcements reached a narrow front between Tepeleni and Kilisura, but were unable to advance ngninst' the Greeks on the heights above Klisura, the oficial spokes man reported.

'The Greeks yesterday repulsed six attacks after intensive artillery preparation, and continued to hold Gominating' positions captured some ays ago, the spokesman declared, The French submarine Sfax, which the Admiralty announced as having been torpedoed on December 10 together with the tanker Rhone, displaced 1,500 fons and. was a. long-Range vessel of a type which had often proved its value, The Stax was navigating on the surface at a slight distance from the Rhone, which she was accompanying to Dakar, At a point 00 miles north-'West of Cape Juby, she was torpedoed by an unidentined submarine, Only four members oftlier crew were saved, the commander, Captain Croix, being among the 04, members of the crew The tanker Rhone, which suffered the same fate as the Stax barely an hour later, was launched in 1910, "She length. displaced 3,000 tons, was 330 feet: in

Fifty-four officers dnd men on the Rhone were rescued, ten others losing heir lives—Havas,

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