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8. Aircraft casualties in operations over and from the British
Isles. Enemy Nil. British one aircraft missing.
9.
Home Security.
Night of January lOth/llth. Portsmouth.
Electric supply was partially restored early January 13th.
10. Night of January 13th/14th. Plymouth. Attack was short;
although some serious fires were started all were Quickly under
control. Gas supplies are temporarily interrupted in Plymouth
but not at Devonport. Power station was hit and the supply cut
off but it will be possible to switch across to grid very shortly.
11.
Albania
Identification of the eleventh division
brings the total of Italian divisions in Albania to twenty.
12.
U.S.S.R.
Since November 1st there has been continued
increase of the forces in Kiev and Odessa military districts
and 4 cavalry divisions 35 infantry divisions and 7 tank brigades
are now located in this part of the country. It is thought that
such concentration at this season is not solely for defensive
reasons and that an agreed occupation of Eastern Moldavia is
a possibili %ty. The absence of defensive measures by Germany tends
to suggest this theory.