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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/ 
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