TELEGRAM RECEIVED FROM 
                 LONDON DATED OCTOBER 2nd, 1941.            
                                                            
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
H.M.S. Hermoine bombarded 
      Italian naval base Pantelleria during operations passing convoy 
      to Malta. Night of lst/2nd, Tanker 12,842 tons in convoy torpedoed 
         770 miles east north east off St. Johns (N.F.).    
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
Night of Sep.3Oth/0ct. 
      1st, enemy convoy off Dutch coast attacked by aircraft of coastal 
      command; direct hits scored on vessels estimated 3000 tons and 
      10,000 tons. Both attacking aircraft were on patrol. P.M. 0ctober 
      1st eight Hurricanes attacked eight E boats off Dieppe. All E. 
      boats hit and damaged. Night of October lst/2nd aircraft hit 
      two small merchant ships off North Friesian Islands. Tanker estimated 
      2,500 tons also attacked and straddled. Night of Sept.29th/ 30th, 
      when Benghasi attacked by thirteen Wellingtons, several direct 
           hits made on merchant ships alongside Mole.      
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                          RUSSIA.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> German advance from Poltava towards 
      Kharkov meeting stiff resistance and German progress in Perekop 
                    isthrmas has been halted.               
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                      ROYAL AIR FORCE.                      
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Sept. 30/0ct. 1st. 61 tons H.E. 
      dropped Hamburg, 39 Cherbourg and 29 Stettin. Hits seen on Blohm 
      and Voss air frame factory and railway junction at Hamburg. At 
      Cherbaurg bombs fell in docks area and at Stettin bursts seen 
      in center of town. October 1st. Our fighters destroyed two enemy 
      fighters, two Spitfires on sea reserve operations and one on 
               photographic reconnaissance missing.