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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./ 
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