The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-14
(NEA Teleplloto)

l Wnlcn one waterman ana one CIVIL Han were killed.
 Number Not Known
 There was no immediate indica- tion how many British parachutists were involved.
 The attack followed 8 British naval bombardment of Genoa, at the northern end of the Italian Peninsula, at dawn Sunday and per- sistent air force attacks on Sicily and mainland targets.
 The high command communique l for Tuesday had announced that British planes had flown over some parts of southern Italy and Sicily during the previous night, causing slight damage by bombs.
 It was in the same area of south ern Italy, in the Lucania area south of Naples and the Calabria are at the toe of the Peninsula, that the parachute troops were dropped, ac- cording to the high command.
 (The high command communique implied that Britain, probably talk ing advantage of its new position in the Benghazi region of Libya, had added troop attack to its aerial and naval, raids on Italy proper. Alter natively British planes could have flown troops from Crete or the Greek mainland.
 (There had been no hint from British quarters that any such dar- ing action as a parachute troop landing had been contemplated. Military authorities in London had said, however, after the capture of Benghazi, that there were some surprises in store for Italy.
 (The possibility had long been considered that Britain, when and if it proved possible, would attack the Italian mainland in further attempt to knock out Italy as the weaker half of the Axis.) German Planes Strike
 Today's communique said that German planes intensively had bombed British air bases in Cyren- aica, the eastern part of Libya, ef- fectively hitting hangars and bar racks. A number of British planes were machine gunned at low alti- tudes, it was said.
 In East Africa, according to the communique, Italian irregular form- ations stubbornly opposed a British advance in Jubaland, the southern part of Italian Somaliland.
 A British attack in the Keren sector of Eritrea was repulsed, 1t was said.
 On the Albanian front, the com- munique said, there was lively pa- trol activity in which Italians in- | f1icted considerable losses on the Greeks and captured prisoners and arms.
 Italian planes bombed Greek naval base, the communique as- serted, and Italian fighter planes shot down nine Greek and British planes.
 British planes attacked Massawa, the main port of Eritrea, yesterday morning but caused no damage and the Italians shot down two of the raiders, it was said.
 Italian and German planes bomb ed the air and naval bases at Malta, the communique continued, and German chaser planes shot down four British hurricane fighter planes:
 British planes yesterday bombed Rhodes, in the Italian Dodecanese Island of the Turkish coast, it was admitted.
 Italian General Killed
 In a special communique it was announced that in a recent battle in Benghazi zone General Giuseppe Tellera commander of the Italian 10th army, was fatally wounded in fierce fighting. Tellera died a few hours after having been taken pri- soner, it was said.
 In describing the British para chutist expedition, the high com- mand said:
 During the night between the 10th and llth the enemy launched in the Calabro-Lucana region a group of parachutitsts armed with machine guns, hand grenades and explosives with the task of inter- rupting and damaging our com- munications and water works in this region.
 Thanks to the quick intervention by the vigilance service all the enemy parachutists were captured before they could cause the grave damage they had in mind.
 During the capture clash oc- cured in which one deputy sheriff and one civilian were killed"