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      bombers amongst Italian petrol and ammunition dumps.
 
      Three Gladiators machine-gunned enemy aircraft at an aerodrome 
      in Eritrea and report having destroyed three fighters and damaged 
      four bombers.
 
      Persian Gulf. On October 19th three or four enemy aircraft dropped 
      about 55 bombs at Bahrein, damaging an oil line.
 
      
 
 
6. Dodecanese. There is reliable information that the Italian 
      authorities have received instructions from Rome to examine the 
      possibility of obtaining certain supplies from neighboring countries 
      in view of the impossibility of replenishing stocks.