5. Shipping casualties. One British ship (1700 tons) carrying coal was bombed and sunk in St. Georges Channel; one man was killed and ten are missing. 6. Middle East . Libya. On the 21st 8 Blenheims destroyed 3 enemy bombers on the ground at an Italian aerodrome. All returned safely. Sudan. On the 17th 3 heavy bombers carried out a low level attack on Kassala fort. All bombs fell in the target area and hits were register3d on the fort. Kenya . On the 19th, aircraft of the South African Air Force registered hits on the jetty and a hangar at Mogodishu and also bollixed fuel stocks and enemy aircraft at 5 Italian aerodromes in Ethiopia. 7 Albania. The Italian nineteenth Infantry division and one hundred and thirty-first armoured division have moved up near the Greek frontier; there are also reports of further Italian troop movements towards the Greek frontier. |