6th/7th. One 600 ton merchant vessel was hit off CAPE BON 
      and another 6,000 ton ship southbound was
 
      torpedoed off SFAX. One Swordfish is missing. 7 Wellingtons bombed 
      SIRTE. 
 
      MALTA. 6th and 7th. A total of 99 enemy bombers and fighters 
      attacked HAL FAR and damaged some 
 
      buildings. One enemy fighter was destroyed by A.A. fire.
 
      BURMA. 6th. 6 Lysanders, with fighter escort, bombed and machine 
      gunned jetties and the railway station
 
      at MOULMEIN. On the 5th/6th, 13 enemy bombers attacked MINGALAD00 
      without causing serious 
 
      damage and on the 6th-7th RANGOON was raided. Our fighters destroyed 
      4 bombers and probably 
 
      destroyed two more.
 
      SINGAPORE. 7th. Heavy air raids reported on following areas: 
      CHANGI R.E. Stores Depots. KALLANG 
 
       aerodrome and GEYLANG - Eastern suburbs. An R.E. explosives 
      dump was hit and the railway station
 
      damaged. One enemy bomber was destroyed and one probably destroyed.
 
      JAVA. 6th. SOURABAYA was again attacked and some damage caused.
 
      
 
 
4. There are indications of increased Japanese activity on 
      the SALWEEN River about 100 miles north of 
 
      MOULMEIN and on the SIAM-BURMA frontier north of CHIENG MAI. 
      Also of Japanese troop convoys
 
      near the ANAMBAS ISLANDS at BALIK-PAPAN and off the south west 
      promontory of the CELEBES.
 
      
 
 
5. On the 3rd and 4th, three French ships arrived at TUNIS 
      and another was discharged there. All four have
 
      previously been reported as carrying lorries and supplies from 
      MARSEILLE to TUNIS destined for LIBYA
 
      
 
 
6. Passenger train services have recently been still further 
      reduced throughout German occupied and 
 
      controlled territory, the immediate reasons varying between operating 
      difficulties due to severe weather,
 
      essential military movements and transportation of fuel and food 
      and coal shortage. While these reasons are
 
      plausible and correct as short term explanations, the scale and 
      the extent of these reductions reflect the 
 
      increasin %g strain upon the European railway system. 
 
      
 
 
7. The recent arrival of two more enemy cargo ships at ISTANBUL 
      and the accumulation there of cargo for
 
      both GERMANY and ITALY suggests a resumption of regular sea traffic 
      between TRIESTE and 
 
      ISTANBUL.
 
      
 
 
8. A German ship recently arrived at FERROL with a cargo ef 
      6,900 tons believed to be rubber. It now  
 
      seems clear that the Spanish have given permission to the Germans 
      to tranship this cargo for transportation
 
      in German motor barges to BAYONNE.
 
      
 
 
CORRECTION TO OPTEL No. 41.
 
      Page 4, para 4, line 4. Read "One of the biggest Cinemas".