Telegram from London 
                    dated October 15th, 1941.               
                                                            
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
Operational summary (information 
            received up to 7 a.m. October 15th, 1941).      
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                           Naval.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> A naval corvette was torpedoed 
      and sunk by U-boat yesterday morning just west of the Straits 
             of Gibraltar. Only 3 survivors reported.       
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
Accident occurred in an 
      oil ship during fire fighting exercises on 13th. One officer 
                  and four ratings were killed.             
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
Naval drifter was sunk 
              in collision in the Thames yesterday.         
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                         Military.                          
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Tobruk 12/13. Party of Polish 
      Cavalry Regiment successfully attacked enemy strong post. Enemy 
      minimum losses 20 killed. Polish casualties 4. In E1 Adem sector 
      enemy tanks patrolled actively during the night but ours could 
                        not make contact.                   
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                          Russia.                           
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> German advance towards Moscow 
      is continuing but the Russians have counter-attacked and driven 
      out Germans from Mojaisk (65 miles west south west of Moscow) 
      and Russian pockets are still resisting behind the German lines 
                   in Vyazma and Bryansk areas.             
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                          Ukraine.                          
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> Germans are widening northward 
      wedge from Berdyansk through Nariupol towards Rostov. 
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                      Royal Air Force.                      
                                                            
                                                            
       SIOE="-1" FACE="Courier New"> 13/14. 29 aircraft bombed Cologne 
      (34 tons) and 35 Dusseldorf (55 tons). A Hudson hit a merchant 
              ship 4,000 tons off Northern Brittany.        
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
14th. Off south west Norway 
      B %eauforts twice hit with bombs 2 merchant ships 8,000 and 2,000 
      tons respectively, torpedoed a third and probably a fourth both 
              of 2,000 tons. 1 Beaufort is missing.