Telegram from London dated November 5th, 1941.
Naval.
M.G.B. missing from operation off Calais night
of 2nd/3rd has been towed into harbor.
British tanker 6470 tons, reported attacked by surface raider
0530/4th 620 miles west south west of Freetown; various forces
ordered to area.
Suez Canal temporarily closed after unexploded object dropped
south of middle lakes.
In three of the ships of French convoy ordered into South African
port there were 481 service personnel.
Five ships totaling 22,266 tons have been sunk out of convoys
C52 east of Newfoundland; from four of these all crews but four
men known saved.
British ship 4,953 tons believed torpedoed 300 miles west
of Walfish Bay a.m. 3rd but messages intercepted were incom
October 22nd, His Majesty's submarine "Urge" sank
in Gulf of Hammamet 1500 ton southbound escorted merchant ship
and 4000 ton merchant ship at anchor. His Majesty's submarine
"Ursula" scored two hits medium sized merchant ship
southbound in convoy a.m. 18 (sic) 50 miles southwest of Susa.
This vessel probably sank.
Military.
Finland. Despite Finnish claims, Russians categorically deny
any German or Finnish advance on Murmansk front.
Crimea. Germans have captured Bakhchisarai (between Simferopol
and Sebastopol) and their claim to have captured