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YUGOSLAVIA
. The Serbian Patriots. Under Colonel Mihailovich, 
      are being harried in the mountains, but are still capable of 
      causing the Germans considerable trouble.
 
      
 
 
BULGARIA
. There are some indications of the beginning 
      of German troop concentrations in BULGARIA.
 
      
 
 
(III) 
AIR OPERATIONS
 
      
 
 
UNITED KINGDOM.
 Operations were severely restricted 
      by bad weather, bomber command only being able to carry out their 
      programme on one night. Several successful attacks were made 
      on enemy shipping, it is estimated that 37,000 tons were sunk 
      or damaged by our aircraft. The G.A.F. activity was negligible.
 
      
 
 
CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN.
 A total of nearly 40 tons of 
      H.E. and incendiaries were dropped on NAPLES in the course of 
      two attacks.
 
      
 
 
LIBYA.
 Day night bombers and hurricane bombers directed 
      heavy attacks chiefly against enemy armoured vehicles, M.T. and 
      aerodromes. Naval aircraft joined in by bombing BARDIA docks 
      and Wellingtons raided TRIPOLI. Our fighters patrolled the battle 
      area and accounted for several dive bombers. They also harassed 
      the enemy and took heavy toll of his mechanical vehicles in low-flying 
      attacks. The Axis air forces kept up a high scale of operations 
      with their dive bombers and single engined fighters.
 
      
 
 
FAR EAST.
 Owing to heavy enemy attacks by superior 
      forces, we were obliged to evacuate the aerodromes in Northern 
      MALAYA after losing some of our fighters destroyed on the ground. 
      PENANG has been bombed several times with fairly heavy casualties 
      among the civilian Asiatic population.
 
      
 
 
RUSSIA.
 Intensive operations by the Russian Air Force 
      in conjunction with their recent counter-attacks provide further 
      evidence of the present German weakness in fighters, due to withdrawal 
      of units for refit or employment elsewhere. The service ability 
      of German aircraft has probably been reduced by the intense cold 
      to a greater extent than those of the Russian Air Force whose 
      ground % staffs are more familiar with such conditions and whose 
      aerodromes have not been within the battle zone.
 
      
 
 
(IV)
 EXTRACTS FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC AND INTELLIGENCE REPORTS 
      ON RESULTS OF R.A.F. AIR ATTACKS ON ENEMY TERRITORY IN EUROPE
 
      
 
 
NAPLES. Casualties and damage on 27th/28th November were the 
      heaviest so far. Photographs in September and October show severe 
      damage to railway sidings at the central junction and confirm 
      reports that a munition train was destroyed causing widespread 
      damage from explosion and blast. One part of the arsenal has 
      been badly damaged, two large cisterns wrecked at an oil refinery 
      and a large gas holder destroyed at the gas works.