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wounded. Traffic on ANTELAT-MSUS 
      Track, heavy in the morning had practically ceased in the afternoon 
      and many vehicles had been abandoned. Only two enemy aircraft, 
   one of which was destroyed, were seen. We had no casualti
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                          SICILY.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Night 26th/27tho Wellington bombers 
      dropped seven tons of bombs on CATANIA and four tons on COMISO. 
        Hangars and runways straddled at both aerodromes.   
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                           MALTA.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 26th/27th, Enemy aircraft approached 
      the island on several occasions but few aircraft crossed the 
      coast. 27th. Twenty air-craft dropped bombs damaging buildings 
nd dockyard machinery in the grand harbor. There were no cas
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
MALAYA. 25th/26th. 19 bombers 
      with 23 fighters as escort attacked an enemy naval force north 
      east of ENDAU. Hits are reported on a Cruiser and two Merchant 
      Vessels of 8,000 and 9,000 tons respectively. Two further forces 
      of bombers and fighters were dispatched to continue the attack 
      but no details have yet been received. Enemy troops on ENDAU-MERSING 
      road were bombed and a large stores dump was hit. Fierce opposition 
      was encountered from a large number of enemy fighters, thirteen 
      of our aircraft are missing and two more crashed. Enemy casualties 
      were eleven destroyed, two probably destroyed and three damaged 
          by our aircraft, also another destroyed by A.     
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
A. fire. 26th. 27 enemy 
      aircraft bombed TENGAH aerodrome rendering it unserviceable and 
      continually attacked our forward troops and communications. 27th. 
      65 enemy aircraft attacked KALLANG and SELETAR, seven of our 
      aircraft were destroyed on the ground and thirteen damaged. Hangars 
                  and other buildings were hit.             
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                  NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES.                  
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Many enemy attacks on shipping 
      off west coast of SUMATRA and raids in varying force at scattered 
         points in the Eastern Archipelago are reported.    
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
4. There is further corroboration 
      of the recent reports that throughout the last fortnight of December 
      forty trains of 35 oil tank cars each, passed daily through BASLE 
      from GERMANY to ITALY, this representing the movement of no less 
   than 300,000 tons of oil from GERMANY to ITALY in two wee