Nazi Planes Attack British Fleet as Rome. Navy Runs for Cover; Nazis Claim Cruiser Hit Aboard a British Warship in the Mediterranean, Jan. 14.
ERMAN planes on Friday intensively attacked the British Fleet in the central Mediterranean after British cruisers and destroyers had sunk an, Italian destroyer in a spectacular running battle.
The Mahan destroy: was sunk within cannon-range of one of Premier Mussolini's Mediterranean strongholds.
After the running sea battle, German planes flew over and strongly attacked the British Fleet.
'The day's fighting continued almost incessantly: from dawn to dusk, when the last German dive-bomber' grown engaged ina daring concentrated attack on this ship.
Tlalian_plines. also participated in today's ye alr attacks, in which seven planes were known to be shot down. "Dive-bombers appeared this area for the first time since th stare of the war-—United Press
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