Telegram received from London dated January 2nd, 1941
 
      
 
 
Naval.
 
      On January 1st at Tripoli were 3 cruisers, 4 destroyers, 20 large 
      merchant vessels. Tanker "British Oeal" reported torpedoed 
      180 miles west of Dakar on December 31st was still afloat p.m. 
      January 1st and has been boarded again.
 
      
 
 
2. Royal Fleet auxiliary "Attendant" mined and sunk 
      in Thames Estuary a.m. January 1st and anti-submarine trawler 
      "Bandolero" sunk in collision p.m. December 30th in 
      Gulf of Sollum.
 
      
 
 
3. Since the beginning of the war 48,810 ships British Allied 
      and neutral have been convoyed; representing shipping of 165 
      million gross tons with a cargo carrying capacity of 250 million 
      tons. Total losses of ships in convoy amounted to 987,000 gross 
      tons.
 
      
 
 
4. Mediterranean. An East-bound convoy of 4 French merchant 
      ships escorted by an armed trawler was intercepted off the Spanish 
      Moroccan coast outside territorial waters by 5 of our destroyers 
      and is being escorted back to Gibraltar.
 
      
 
 
5. On December 30th a Naval trawler was in collision with 
      a British destroyer in the Gulf of Sollum and sank.
 
      
 
 
6.Military. Libya.
 Check of Italian captured war material 
      to January amounts to: field and medium guns 261, anti-tank guns 
      48, heavy anti-aircraft guns 20.
 
      Many pieces are unserviceable.
 
      
 
 
7. Albania.
 Central sector. During the mopping-up operations 
      Greeks have occupied some heights and several small