Telegram from London dated November 9th.          
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                            1.                              
                           Naval.                           
 Reported fighter aircraft from "Audacity" 
      (auxiliary aircraft carrier) escorting convoy, shot down Focke 
              Wulf on 8th, 260 miles west of Oporto         
 
                                                            
 
 
2. Night of 8th/9th ships Aurora Penelope [words undecypherable! 
      intercepted convoy previously reported at 1360 miles East of 
      Messina Strait. Estimated two destroyers several merchant ships, 
      number uncertain sunk. Two destroyers escaped. No damage to our 
      ships so far reported. Morning of November 9th aircraft reported 
      two enemy cruisers two destroyers two or [word omitted! merchant 
      ships thirty miles from position of engagement. One merchant 
                        ship was on fire.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
3. November 8th two small British merchant ships damaged by 
      aircraft off East Coast. One in convoy slightly damaged but proceeding, 
 one disabled while off Sunderland, tugs were sent to assist
 
                                                            
 
 
                             4.                             
                      Royal Air Force.                      
 Night of 7th/8th further reports. 
      Of the 400 dispatched, 339 aircraft claim to have attacked primary 
      or other targets; 37 missing and one crashed on landing (crew 
      safe). Aircraft on Berlin encountered very bad weather, thick 
      cloud and no ground detail visible; 72 attacked including 11 
      heavies and 92 tons of high explosive and l0,lO0 incendiaries 
      dropped. Bursts believed in [word undecypherable! and Tempelhof 
      areas also in West End where fires observed. About 60 tons of 
      high explosive and 2,000 incendiaries dropped on Cologne where 
      numerous fires reported and in Mannheim. At Ostend and Boulogne 
          bombs fell across the docks and started fires.    
 
                                                            
 
 
5. Day of the 8th: 21 squadrons of fighters