Telegram from London dated October 20th, 1940.
 
       
 
      1. Naval. On October 19th a British destroyer was mined off North 
      Foreland and sank; 96 survivors have been rep %orted.
 
      On the same day, a Naval Trawler was also sunk apparently by 
      a mine off the Thames Estuary.
 
      
 
 
A preliminary report of an attack by aircraft of the Fleet 
      Air Arm on ships and establishments at Tromso on the morning 
      of October 16th states that 17 aircraft attacked oil tankers 
      and sea-plane base and started fires. One aircraft had to make 
      a forced landing.
 
      A British submarine on return from patrol in Mediterranean waters 
      reports having unsuccessfully attacked Italian battle fleet off 
      Taranto on September 30th, and on October 9th having torpedoed 
      and sunk a 9,000 ton merchant vessel in convoy in the South Adriatic; 
      after this latter attack she was severely hunted and suffered 
      some damage.
 
      The French ship "Indochinois", while being escorted 
      back to Dakar by a British destroyer, started to scuttle herself; 
      four rounds of pom-poms were fired into her bridge and scuttling 
      was prevented by a boarding
 
      party./