Telegram despatched from London in the evening od august 11th, 1940. 1. Naval. Destroyer "Fearless" in collision with His Majesty's Trawler "Willful" probably need docking. Trawler badly damaged. 2. Royal Air Force. Heavy bombers during night of the 9th-10th August dropped 13 H.E. and 680 incendiary bombs on aluminium factory at Cologne; many hits observed causing fires and explosions. Aircraft attacking during latter stages of operation reported seeing burnt out buildings. Nine heavy bombers located and attacked aluminium works at Ludwigshafen, results doubtful;various railway targets also attacked apparently successfully. Our medium bombers started fires among hangars at Guernsey aerodrome and obtained direct hits on oil tanks at Flushing. Yesterday 22 Blenheims carried out harassing attacks on aerodromes in the Low Countries and Northern France. Three twin-engined aircraft damaged on ground. Two of our aircraft missing. Last night 20 heavy bombers despatched against shipbuilding yards, oil stocks and other military objectives and 2 to drop leaflets on |