No air bombing reported yesterday; very slight activity.
 
      
 
 
Last night, enemy activity on wide area, but few bombs dropped, 
      no casualties reported. Bombs, mostly incendiary, dropped in 
      Thames and Hersey Estuaries and in Cardiff and Bristol areas.
 
      
 
 
4. Surmmary of air casualties:
 
      
Day of July 31st: 
Enemy confirmed 2 Messerschmitts 109, 
      unconfirmed 2 bombers and 1 fighter. British confirmed I Blenheim 
      and 2 Spitfires.
 
      
 
 
Night of July 31st - August lst
: Enemy nil, British 
      3 missing.
 
      
Total:
 Enemy 2, British 6.
 
      
 
 
5. Shipping casualties yesterday.
 
      By U-boat: British ship (6,300 tons) outward bound in convoy 
      torpedoed and sunk off northern Ireland.
 
      By mine: Norwegian ship (1,300 tons) carrying coal, sunk in Bristol 
      Channel.
 
      
 
 
6. 
Malta.
 Yesterday morning nine enemy fighters and 
      one bomber engaged by three Gladiators over Islands; bomber turned 
      back, one fighter shot down. One Gladiator shot down, pilot rescued.