COPY OF TELEGRAM FR0M LONDON DATED AUGUST 31, 1941     
 
                                                            
 
 
On 28th off West Coast of Crete British S/M sank an enemy 
              motor vessel estimated at 10,000 tons.        
 
                                                            
 
 
                   2. Suez Canal is open.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
3. A Soviet destroyer has cut one moored mine entrance to 
                            White Sea.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
4. Deucalion on arrival at harbor reported two attacks 27th 
      by two Italian torpedo bomber aircraft. All torpedoes and bombs 
      missed and she shot down one of the bombers during the second 
                             attack.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
5. German advance south of Leningrad proceeding if it continues 
      grave danger of city being cut off from Russian forces to the 
                              South                         
 
                                                            
 
 
6. Royal Air Force 29th/30th Frankfurt. 100 tons H.E. and 
      9,000 incendiaries dropped on East Harbor and railway center, 
      Mannheim. 45 tons of H.E. and 9,000 incendiaries dropped. Many 
      fires reported some of, which were large. A Wellington probably 
                     destroyed one M.E. 110.                
 
                                                            
 
 
7. 30th. Four coastal commands Hudson's scored one hit on 
     a 3,000 tons ship off Norway: three of them are missing
 
                                                            
 
 
8. Middle East 28th/29th. Twenty-six Wellington's from Egypt 
      bombed two aerodromes near Athens. At one four hangars were hit, 
      two caught fire and several aircraft on the ground are believed 
      destroyed. At the other one or more hangars were demolished and 
      fires caused in adjacent woods.