Telegram despatched from London late in the evening of August 
      10th, 1940.
 
      
 
 
Royal Air Force
. Night bombing 8th/gth August again 
      hindered by clouds, only one-third of aircraft despatched reached 
      main objectives. Light attacks made on all primary targets, large 
      fires and explosions seen. Aerodromes and power stations at Bremen 
      were attacked without visible result.
 
      
 
 
Fourteen Blenheims despatched yesterday, one successfully 
      attacked thirty to forty enemy aircraft on Guernsey aerodrome 
      and another bombed seaplanes and hangars near Brest. All our 
      aircraft returned.
 
      
 
 
Last night sixty-two aircraft despatched as follows:
 
      
 
 
Twenty-four Wellingtons, aluminium works at Cologne and other 
      military objectives; fourteen Whitleys to aluminium works at 
      Ludwigshafen; six Blenheims to attack docks and shipping at Flushing; 
      twelve more to Guernsey aerodrome; six mine-laying aircraft to 
      Ems river. All machines have returned safely.
 
      
 
 
2. 
German Air Force.
 Yesterday enemy activity slight 
      and confined to the coastal reconnaissance, with one casualty. 
      Single bomber attacked Sunderland where bombs fell in shipyards, 
      at a concrete works and near a colliery. Casualties reported 
      as one killed, seventy-two injured.