TELEGRAM FROM LONDON DATED SEPTEMBER 10th, 1941.      
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
1 p.m. September 9th Beaufort aircraft claims hit with torpedo 
on enemy merchant vessel about 6,000 tons in convoy off Stav
 
                                                            
 
 
2. Night of September 7th/September 8th Wellington dropped 
       about 16 tons H. E. and incendiaries Palermo Harbor. 
 
                                                            
 
 
3. Attack on Kassel night of September 8th/9th very successful 
          left whole town enveloped in flames and smoke.    
 
                                                            
 
 
4. Leningrad positions serious. Heavy fighting Yelnya and 
Dniepropetrovsk, Germans believed made progress southern Ber
 
                                                            
 
 
5. German army. Rations for armed forces were reduced June 
      1st for second time since war began. Weeks meat and fats rations 
      for "front line" troops was reduced from 3½ 
      to 3 lbs. and 10 ½ to 8 ½ oz. respectively, week's 
      rations for other troops have been reduced to level of heavy 
  workers rations namely 1 ¾ meat and 6 ½ oz. 
 
                                                            
 
 
6. Our equivalent field service rations scale is a) United 
      Kingdom frozen meat 3-½ weekly, margarine 10-½ 
                   weekly, bacon 21 oz. weekly.             
 
                                                            
 
 
b) Middle East: frozen meat 4 lbs. 6 oz. margarine 10 ½ 
      oz. weekly bacon 21 oz. weekly.