Scottish coasts.
4. Summary of air casualties day of August 1st: enemy confirmed,
two, unconfirmed three. British, confirmed, one fighter, four
medium bombers. Total, enemy two, British five.
5. Shipping casualties. By U-boats: on July 30th British ship
5500 tons sunk off Hebrides. Early this morning three British
tankers 8000 tons, 6500 tons and ll,000 tons sunk off northern
Ireland during dispersal of outbound convoy. Late reports indicate
sinking of Norwegian ship 1500 tone, Swedish ship 2000 tons off
northern Ireland 18th, and Greek ship 5500 tons in the western
approaches 17th. By mine: British ship 7500 tons mined Orfordness
Yesterday. Ship did not sink, tugs sent to assist.
6.
Italy.
Considerable air transport activity last three days on the
routes Italy - Libya, Dodecanese - Italy and Dodecanese - Libya.
One hundred German dive bombers previously reported Pola have
now moved to southern Italy. Also reported 38 German dive bombers
have gone to Libya via Austria and Italy.
7.
Middle East.
On July 29th five of our heavy bombers
attacked munitions dump at Massawa. Results unobserved. Four
of our aircraft damaged. On July 50th attacks by