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                            7.                              
                    Night November 2/3rd                    
. Operations cancelled. Day 
      of November 2nd fighters attacked shipping hit 3,000 ton merchant 
      vessel off Ameland. Rolling stock, wireless station and goods 
                      trains also attacked.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
                            8.                              
       Middle East. Night October 31st/November 1st.        
 Following 
      targets attacked: Hangars and barracks at Berca aerodrome officers 
      quarters at Bardia stores dump and repair shops E1 Gazala, torpedo 
      factory at Naples where hit claimed with 4,000 pound bomb, main 
      power station at Palermo. Wellington claimed 6 hits on 6,000 
      tons merchant vessel west of Derna and on November 2nd Blenheim 
       claimed hit on 3,000 tons merchant vessel E.N.E. of  
 
                                                            
 
 
                      BRITISH EMBASSY,                      
 
                         WASHINGTON, D.C                    
 
      NOVEMBER 4, 1941