Telegram received from London on the evening of August 22nd.
1.
Naval.
Our aircraft on patrol Tuesday morning attacked 2 large destroyers
and 1 large submarine off west coast of Denmark. The U-boat was
forced to submerge and aircraft registered near misses on the
destroyer which was also machine-gunned.
Yesterday morning our air patrol reported an 8,000 tons transport,
screened by 4 destroyers, off west Denmark; other aircraft sent
to attack failed to locate this force, but bombed without definite
results 4 enemy merchant vessels. One of our aircraft attacked
by 7 M.E. 109's for 35 minutes, shot down one into the sea.
A British cruiser was unsuccessfully bombed by the enemy yesterday
afternoon in St. George's Channel; 3 trawlers were also attacked
in the same locality, and one enemy machine was believed to have
been hit.
One minesweeping trawler was bombed and sunk off Falmouth
on the night of August 20th.