Information received up
                   to 7 A.M. 6th January 1942.
 
 
 
 
 
 
                            1.
                           NAVAL.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yesterday morning an Italian
      force consisting of one battleship, three cruisers and four destroyers
      was sighted off Homs (L) on an easterly course, and a convoy
      of nine large merchant ships (about lO,O00 tons), accompanied
      by destroyers, was seen entering Tripoli Harbor. H.M. Submarine
      "PROTEUS" reports attacking two 8,000 ton transports
      yesterday morning off the west coast of Greece and sinking one
      of them containing troops. Previously on the 30th December she
          hit a 4,000 tons transport West of Cephalonia.
 
 
 
 
 
 
                            2.
                         MILITARY.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                           LIBYA.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Our mobile troops are maintaining
      pressure on the enemy in the Jedabya area and are harassing his
     lines of communication. Total Bardia prisoners now 7,46
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          MALAYA.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                           East.
 
 
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Our Forces withdrew with some
      difficulty from Kuantan to an area approximately 50 miles to
      the Uest. A rearguard action was fought resulting in considerable
                    casualties on both sides.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                           West.
 
 
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> The enemy have landed in some
      force at Kuala Selangor and have been engaged by our patrols.
      They are infiltrating up country, and the threat to our communications
  continues, but no major developments have so far been repo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          RUSSIA.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Russians are attacking
      in the Leningrad sector and in the area north-east of Kharkov.
            Fighting continues in the Eastern Crimea.
 
 
 
 
 
 
                            3.
                       AIR OPERATIONS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Western Front, 5th. An
      R.C.A.F. Hudson scored two hits and two near misses on a 5,000
      tons merchant ship off the Dutch Coast. 5th/6th. About 40 enemy
      aircraft were operating p %rincipally off the east coast. P.M.
      6th. 195 aircraft were sent out. Breat 154, Cherbourg 7. No landing
                      reports yet received.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                       Mediterranean.
 
 
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Greece. 3rd/4th. Three Wellington
      bombed the submarine base at Salamis and three others dropped
                   supplies for British troops.