Telegram received from London
 
      
dated January 1st, 1941
 
      Naval.
 
      West Africa. British Naval Control Officer Lisbon reports that 
      a French submarine was torpedoed and sunk off Rio de 0ro while 
      on the surface escorting a French tanker which was also sunk. 
      No British submarine was in the vicinity.
 
      
 
 
2. Attacks on shipping. A Norwegian ship (5500 tons) and a 
      British tanker (8500 tons) were both torpedoed and sunk by a 
      German submarine west of Dakar on December 21st and December 
      31st, respectively. A Swedish ship(5600 tons) was damaged by 
      a mine in Liverpool Bay yesterday afternoon.
 
      
 
 
3. The west-bound channel convoy was unsuccessfully attacked 
      by enemy aircraft in the Thanes Estuary.
 
      
 
 
4.
 Military.
 No operations of importance reported from 
      any front officially.
 
 
      5.
Royal Air Force. 
During daylight on December 31st, 22 
      Blenheims were sent out. Fourteen were forced to abandon their 
      tasks owing to weather. Six acting independently claim the following 
      hits. An anti-aircraft ship at Flushing, a building at a Dutch 
      aerodrome, a factory at Cologne and a bridge near Emmerich. Two 
      failed to return.
 
      
 
 
6. Night of 31st /lst. All operations were cancelled.
 
      
 
 
7. 
Libya. 
On the night of December 29th/30th Tobruk 
      and an Italian landing ground were bombed and a number of fires 
      started.
 
      
 
 
8. 
Italian Somaliland.
 Four Hurricanes of the South 
      African Air Force attacked Barder an aerodrome on December