TELEGRAM FROM LONDON DATED OCTOBER 12th, 1941.
A supply convoy from the United Kingdom has arrived at Archangel.
2. Enemy aircraft again attacked Faroe Islands p.m. October
11th; a Norwegian trawler was sunk and houses were machine gunned.
3. Small Greek merchant vessel in convoy was sunk by mine
off Humber October 10th.
4. Small British merchant vessel was bombed and sunk off the
East coast early this morning.
5. Canadian Government tanker has now arrived at Iceland.
6.
Tobruk.
As a counter to enemy night operations with
tanks against our forward observation posts on October 9th 15
9th/10th. Revised casualties. 10 bombers missing, 4 crashed,
1 crew killed.
8. October 10th/11th. of our Infantry tanks successfully intercepted
an enemy tank formation and forced it to withdraw. 20 German
tanks took part of which many were certainly damaged. Ours sustained
only minor repairable damage and we had two casualties.
7.
Royal Air Force
. October Objectives were attacked
as follows Krupps Works Essen 56 aircraft, 59 tons of high explosives,
6640 incendiary bombs.
Cologne.
53 aircraft, of high explosives, nil.
Bordeaux.
9 aircraft, 6 tons of high explosives, 1080
incendiary bombs.
Ostend.
16 aircraft, 27 tons of high explosives, 840 incendiary
bombs.
Rotterdam. 76 tons of high explosives, 4960 incendiary bombs.
Dunkirk
. 19 aircraft, 16 tons