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...British, by all accounts, scored first, just at dawn, when a cruiser sighted two of Italy's torpedo boats, sank one at once. At 11 o'clock the Italians returned by air and were driven off by British fighters, but not before they had spotted the new position of the fleet...
...time record. As usual, the lion's share of the surplus belonged to the U. S., No. 1 would-be exporter. In U. S. warehouses now are nearly 11,000,000 bales without a market. Awash with surpluses, the U. S. price of March cotton sank 60? (to $51.80 a bale) last week...
...fleet had kept chopping at Italian supply lines all week. A submarine (British or Greek) sank three Italian merchantmen in the Adriatic. Next day another Italian ship was torpedoed off the Yugoslav coast. An armed merchantman was sunk after a running fight in the same waters. The submarine Thetis which foundered off Liverpool in 1939, now raised and renamed the Thunderbolt, torpedoed an Italian submarine cruising on the surface...
...until two-thirds of her 58-man crew had been killed. The Komata took eight German shells amidships, which killed the chief officer and wounded the captain, when her radio operator defied orders to close down his wireless. The Rangitane was trapped by the raider's searchlight, sank flaming, with the loss of 13 crew members, six men and seven women out of 100 passengers...
...five days many units of the latter lay to offshore, grimly pouring broadside after broadside into the flaming town. In an extraordinarily daring exploit, one British "light vessel" (possibly a destroyer) penetrated Bardia's inner harbor, and in a hail of Italian machine-gun fire from shore, sank three Italian supply vessels. The Italians tried, with torpedo planes, to drive off the iron-clad fortresses which their shore batteries could not hit or harm, but the R. N. stood its water in a historic demonstration of naval fire power supporting a land attack. The R. N. also supplied water...