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.