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today Italy's aerial raiders had bonn
barded Allied naval bases and flying
fields yesterday in Malta, Corsica
and Tunisia.
Reconnaissance activity continued
in the Alps along the Franco-I Italian
borders, and in North Africa there
were clashes of Italian and British
troops.
In British raids, the communiaue
said, a civilian was killed at Savona
and several others were wounded,
and at Cagliari six aviation tech
nlcians were killed and 80 wounded
in an attack on the airdrome.
The British, using tanks, attacked
Italian outposts IN Libya
CA broadcast on the wave
length of the French Radio Sta
ton TPA l3 intercepted this
morning in New York by N. B. C.
said the entire industrial center
of Turin, Italy. had been de-
stroyed by French air raiders.
Anti-aircraft guns failed to func-
ton, it was saidD
Submarine Claimed Sunk.
In the Mediterranean Sea and
in the air, the Italians declared their
forces destroyed 40 French and 2
British planes and an Allied sub
marine and announced that anti
aircraft batteries brought down four
other Allied planes during air raids
on Genoa the night of June 1915
The government said one woman
was killed and eight persons were
injured in the Genoa raids.
Five Egyptian soldiers were
killed and nine wounded in four
raids by Italian bombers on Mersa
Matruh, Western Egypt. yesterday
morning, Reuters, British news
agency, reported from Marsa
Matruh.)
"Violent" Operations.
The Italian communlque said op-
erations in Northern Africa were
violent as the British "attempted
an attack in the direction of Sidi
Aveis"
Weekend activities were sum-
married by the government as fol-
lows:
Seventy Italian bombers attacked
air bases in Southern France, de-
stroying the 40 French planes, blow
ing up munitions depot and setting
several fires.
French Corsica and British Malta
also were attacked by air.
In East Africa, italian flyers
bombed air bases of Berbera. British
Somaliland, and Mandera, Tan
ganyika.
Two British planes were reported
shot down at Massaua. Eritrea.
Can Egyptian communique
issued at Cairo said the Italians
raided the Egyptian frontier post
of Salum, and the coastal town Of
Sidi Barrani, causing 80 casual
ties. British bombers set fire to
Italian airdrome buildings at
Diredawa, Ethiopia. and struck
alrdrome buildings also at Maca-
aca, the r. A. F.. Middle East
command said.
CAT Valetta, Malta, British re-
ported an air raid yesterday but
listed no results. Thousands Of
Maltese were said to be living in
old railroad tunnels)
Albania Joins in War.
A Rome radio broadcast reported
that Albanias parliament adopted
a bill entering that Italian depend
ency into the war on the side Of
Italy.
Fascists generally said they con-
sidered that the material aid" from
the United States promised by Presi-
dent Roosevelt was unlikely to reach
the Allies in time.
Giovanni Ansaldo, editor Of II
TELEGRAPH of Leghorn, newspaper OF
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano, said in his weekly broadcast
to the Italian armed forces that for
American aid to be effective "it
would be necessary that Germans
and Italians should be so amiable as
to wait.
But the Germans and Italians
are not so amiable In these cir
cumstances it is difficult to see how
statesmen who have the misfor-
tuned to try to direct the (Allied)
destinies can delude the .,elves
into believing further resistance is
possible"
The newspaper II Popolo di Roma
said President Roosevelt's reply to
Paul Reynaud's plea for aid for
France was "typically American" in
urging France ito continue the war
without assuming any responsibility
in the not improbable case that
France succumbs after useless,
bloody resistance"
Diplomats Return Home.
Authorities here received word
that a train bearing Italian Dip
lomats from France had entered
Italy, and it was assumed that a
train returning French diplomats
to their native land-previously de-
layed at Stresa awaiting news o.