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      One Hudson obtained six direct hits on a three thousand ton merchant 
      vessel and another aircraft scored three direct hits on an 800 
      ton vessel both off South West Norwegian coast.
 
      
 
 
9. Night of the 4th/5th January. A total of 103 aircraft sent 
      out:
 
      
Locality
 
Target Number of Aircraft
 
      Brest Enemy cruiser 54 heavy bombers
 
      Hamburg and
 
      Rotterdam 0il 28 medium bombers.
 
      Duisberg-
 
      Ruhrort Inland port 9 heavy bombers
 
      Mine-laying - 10 aircraft
 
      Lille and Paris Propaganda leaflets 2 heavy bombers.
 
      
 
 
All our aircraft returned safely.
 
      
 
 
10. 
Libya.
 
      On January 3rd Blenheims bombarded Bardia, Tobruk and enemy landing 
      grounds. Three enemy aircraft on the ground were hit and one 
      Blenheim is missing. Our fighters maintained offensive patrols 
      and one Hurricane intercepted five Italian bombers which were 
      attacking H.M.S. "Terror"; the Hurricane destroyed 
      three of them and damaged a fourth.
 
      
 
 
ll. Photographs show that a 10,000 ton merchant vessel was 
      sunk during attack by our heavy bombers on Tripoli harbour on 
      January 1st.
 
      
 
 
12. 
Italian East Africa 
 
      On January 3rd a Blenheim dropped bombs on the main quays at 
      Massawa and probably hit a destroyer. Three other medium bombers 
      severely damaged buildings at two Italian bases in Ethiopa.
 
      
 
 
13. 
German Air Force.
 
      January 4th. Enemy activity was chiefly confined