Telegram received from London dated October 22nd, 1940
 
      
 
 
1. Naval.
 
      Dover was intermittently shelled and bombed during afternoon 
      of the 21st and minor damage was caused.
 
      
 
 
Red Sea.
 A north bound convoy escorted by naval units 
      including two destroyers and two sloops "Yarra" and 
      "Auckland" was attacked at about midnight of the 20th/91st 
      by two enemy destroyers in Southern Red Sea. The enemy fired 
      two torpedoes at His Majesty's Australian Ship "Yarra" 
      and shelled convoy. His Majesty's Ships "Auckland" 
      and "Yarra" engaged enemy who retired in a westerly 
      direction chased by two destroyers. At 2.50 a.m. on the 21st 
      an enemy destroyer was engaged and after running aground was 
      abandoned and later blew up. One of our destroyers came under 
      fire from shore batteries and was hit in engine room either during 
      action or by these batteries. She at first withdrew on one engine 
      but later was taken in tow by another destroyer. At 7 a.m. on 
      21st these two destroyers were unsuccessfully attacked by aircraft.
 
      Imports into Great Britain in convoy during week ending October 
      12th have for second week in succession exceeded a million tons, 
      the average for previous ten weeks being nine hundred and fifty 
      thousand tons.
 
      Bombs/