English Translation

- 2 - ships were taken out of combat. In addition, 2 Italian cruisers and 2 auxiliary cruisers were severely damaged. This blow was fought on Monday night against the very strong defended Italian base. Churchill announced this victory today in the House of Commons. Churchilla explained: The blow that the Italian was. Plotte was granted, is of decisive influence on the balance of the plotting powers in the Mediterranean and will also influence the maritime situation in other parts of the world. The Italian fleet, of course on paper, was considerably more concentrated than our fleet in the mediterranean, but it has constantly avoided turning to the camouflage. I feel it is my duty to immediately inform the House of this overwhelming victory. Churchill then, with strong applause from the House, brought the following communiqué to the reading: The British fleet, on Monday night, had a devastating blow against the Italian fleet, which was in the port in the protection of the coastal batteries of Taranto. The damage caused could now be determined by aerial photos. A battleship of the Littoria class lay under water with the bow to the fore and had strong impact on starboard. A Battleship of Cavour class had to be stamped on beach. The stern was under water and the ship had strong hit side to starboard board. Eisher could not yet be determined with absolute certainty, whether also a second battleship of the Cavour class was seriously damaged. In the inner harbour there are also 2 Kruzer with pop side to starboard and the water around it is covered with oil. There were also 2 auxiliary cruisers with the bow lying under water there sighted. The Italian sloppy fleet consisted of 6 ships, of which 2 belonged to the Litto* ria class, which were just put into service and 4 were part of the recently modernized Cavour class. After this successful British attack, probably only 3 Italian battleships remain capable of fighting. After the attack on Taranto, only 2 British aircraft were missing. More details about other operations in the British fleet: The British fleet continued to disrupt the Italian-backward lines in Libya. On Saturday, Sidi el Barrani was successfully bombed, although the fire was fired by the Italians. Coastal batteries replied, but our ships suffered losses of any kind, Perner has recently attacked one of our submarines 2 ital. Proviant ships, which sailed in the direction of a destroyer. One of the two heavily loaded ships that sailed with a tonnage of 3oo t, was sunk. The second ship is damaged with certainty, and there is the possibility that it has sunk. After reading this communiqué, Churchill added that the brit. fleet aw h's tampfgeist has shown itself in the heroic deployment as an armed brit . Hardelsvaper /Name incomprehensible/ led a heroic fight against an overwhelming superpower to secure the escape of a large portion of a conductive gas attacked in the Atlantic Ocean. Today, in London, details of a fight were officially announced during which the British auxiliary cruiser ? Saved the bulk of a convoy in the Atlantic Ocean, whose destruction was already announced by the German OKW. Out of 38 ships of the convoys at least 29 were able to save themselves with a total water displacement of l5o.ooot by the self-sacrifice of this auxiliary cruiser. Auxiliary cruisers had taken the position of battle between the Gelitzug and the German warship and in a long fight damaged the German Warship and thus gave the remaining ships of the conduction the possibility to escape. The British auxiliary ship was strong for the German ship in the assembly 3