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...south end of the Red Sea was the scene last week of one more conflict between the British and Italian Navies and one more conflict in official reports. A big British convoy, carrying troops and supplies from England and Australia to reinforce the Middle East armies, was attacked under cover of night. The Italians said their motor torpedo boats sank six merchant vessels in the convoy, some of them filled with troops, of whom 3,000 drowned. A British cruiser of the Sydney class, chasing the attackers after dawn, was heavily hit by artillery fire from the Eritrean shore...
...British account denied damage to any British ship except the destroyer Kimberley. This 1,690-ton vessel, said the Admiralty, pursued the convoy's attackers, which included two Italian destroyers. She chased the 1,058-ton Francesco Nullo to shore, shelling her so she had to be beached. While the Kimberley was polishing off the Nullo with a torpedo, three field guns ashore opened up on her. Splinters from one hit damaged a steam pipe, reduced the speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might...
Wine will be waiting for you when you reach Kunming." On the stroke of midnight, Burma time, British officials gave the word to go. At 12:07 the first truck bored away into the darkness. At 12:27 a score more started. By 2 a.m. the first convoy of 60 trucks had left. Other convoys formed behind...
...German High Command claimed a total of 327,000 tons shot out of British merchant convoys by U-boats last week-26 ships out of one convoy. The Germans claimed a foray by their motor-torpedo boats close to the British coast which sank more tonnage, took 40 Britons prisoner. They claimed another raid by German destroyers in the mouth of Bristol Channel, in which they engaged a British cruiser squadron, torpedoing one vessel. They said they sank a British submarine off Le Havre. They claimed that their coast artillery kept Britain's Channel patrol of destroyers bottled...
Other reverberations hummed along the Empire's sea lines. Berlin reported bombing one of five Canadian transports in convoy off Scotland, two freighters in convoy along the English coast. In the Red Sea convoy ships bringing reinforcements were attacked by Italian bombers...