The Archive · 1941

Greek Operations

During the first three months of the Mahan war on Greece, three Italian submarines and in addition Italian transports totalling more than 35.000 tons have been sunk.

'The latter Include an auxiliary ware ship armed with two' guns. This me formation is contained in a statement Ly the Greek Admiralty, which goes on to discuss the "purely imaginary losses which the Italian fleet is re~ ported to have inflicted on the Greek Navy, Disproving Italian claims. the Ad~ murally declares all Greek destroyers fare in excellent condition, not the slightest damage having been inflicted fon the Greek merchant navy in the Egean or Mediterranean by enemy faction. oF any other cause In Ttalian bombardments of Corfu, it was stated, not a single military objective had been hit because there was none—the only result had been A massacre of women and children, The alleged bombardment of the Greek-occupied Albanian coast has been completely ineffective, except when Ttatian warships fired in error fon Italian positions and thereby assisted in their easy capture, it was

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