Telegram received from London dated October 24th, 1940 1. Naval. A search has been carried out for His Majesty's Canadian Destroyer "Margaree" but up to the present nothing has been found except one lifebuoy. His Majesty's Ship "Kimberley", damaged in the recent Red Sea action, has arrived in port. 2. Royal Air Force . Daylight October 23rd. Two aircraft attacked shipping off the Dutch coast without observed results and one bombed a factory at St. Nicholas and caused large explosions. Two aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked a convoy of 9 merchant vessels and S escort vessels off the Frisian Islands. 2 ships of about 4,000 and 2,000 tons respectively were hit by torpedoes after which the decks of one of the vessels were seen to be awash while the second was down by the stern. Night of October 23rd/24th. Aircraft were detailed to attack targets as follows. Docks at the Hook of Holland, fires started between railway station and docks; marshalling yards at Kvefeld, Gremberg, Soest and Mannheim and Coblenz, reports not yet received; in the Berlin area the Putlitzstrasse and Lehrter marshalling yards, starting fires, the Klingenburg power station, the Tempelhof marshalling yards, where/ |