5. Shipping Casualties.
 
      On October 15th 2 British ships (totaling 12,000 tons) were torpedoed 
      in outward-bound convoy Northwest of Eire. Survivors are in H. 
      M. ships.
 
      On October 15th British ship (2000 tons) torpedoed in Northern 
      Atlantic, and is reported sinking.
 
      Convoy unsuccessfully bombed in the Thames Estuary on October 
      15th.
 
      Information just received that 8. S. "Port Gisborne" 
      (8390 tons) bound from Auckland to Cardiff was torpedoed 300 
      miles west of Scotland.
 
      No further news at present.
 
      
 
 
6. Middle East.
 
      Nine British bombers successfully attacked Benghazi on night 
      of October 13th-14th.
 
      British bombers successfully attacked Gura aerodrome (Erithrea) 
      on night of October 13th-14th and Diredawa (Abyssinia) on night 
      of October l4th-15th.
 
      Three enemy bombers attacked British convoy in Perim Straits 
      on October 15th but attack was repulsed by our fighters but one 
      enemy aircraft probably destroyed.
 
      British mechanized patrol inflicted heavy casualties on 120 enemy 
      astride the river Gash southeast of Kassala on October 13th.