Telegram from London, dated October 1st, 1940
1. Naval.
September 30th, His Majesty's Australian ship STUART in cooperation
with flying boat sunk Italian submarine off Alexandria.
Coastal battery at GRIS NEO shelled Dover morning of September
30th. One civilian killed and seven wounded.
2. Royal Air Force.
In spite of unfavourable weather conditions successful attacks
were carried out on the night of September 29th-30th. on six
railway marshalling yards, oil plant at MAGDEBURG, BOSCH factory
and gas works at STUTTGART, oil refinery at HANOVER, power station
near ANTWERP, aircraft factory at AMSTERDAM, nine aerodromes
in Germany and Holland and the Channel ports. The crew of one
of the bombers reported missing, now safe.
September 30th, two enemy flying boats were shot down off northeast
Scotland and one JU.88 off LINCOLNSHIRE coast.
During the night of September 30th-October 1st, 122 aircraft
attacked shipping and docks in the Channel ports, aerodrome at
Berlin and Marshalling yards and a synthetic oil plant in Germany.
Results not yet known. Five bombers not yet returned.
3./