TELEGRAM RECEIVED FROM LONDON 
 
      
DATED JANUARY 4th, 1941
 
      
 
 
 
      1. 
Naval
 
      On January 3rd 8,000 ton tanker mined
 
      180 miles west of Gironde. A %ircraft sent to attack, 1 located 
      tanker and near missed her. Reconnaissance January 3rd showed 
      1 Hipper class cruiser in dock at Brest and 16 U-boats at Bordeaux. 
      During the night of January 3rd and 4th aircraft attacked these 
      U-boats, reports not yet available.
 
      Two ships of French convoy intercepted off Moroccan coast have 
      arrived at Gibraltar and other two were expected to arrive yesterday 
      afternoon. 
Attacks on shipping.
 British ship (2,500 tons) 
      sunk by mine In Thames Estuary yesterday.
 
      Convoy of ships has arrived in home waters from Sierra Leone.
 
      
 
 
2. 
Military. 
 
      Albania. 
 
      In the central sector 4 Italian counter- attacks on Mt. Tomor 
      repulsed. Elsewhere nothing to report.
 
      
 
 
3. 
Royal Air Force.
 
      Night of January 2nd and 3rd.
 
      Shipyards and railways at Bremen attacked by 20 heavy bombers 
      with good results. Five more heavy bombers attacked miscellaneous 
      targets. During the same night 3 Blenheims from Fighter Command 
      carried out offensive patrols against enemy aerodromes