Telegram from London of the
 
      20th January, 1941.
 
      
 
 
Naval.
 
      On January 17th and 18th, six escorted French merchant ships 
      totalling 33,000 tons passed through  %the Straits of Gibralter.
 
      
 
 
2. Attacks on shipping. Armed merchant cruiser "Arawa" 
      reported on the 19th having picked up one boatload of survivors 
      from "British Union." Search continuing.
 
      
 
 
3. An enemy raider is reported to have sunk two Norwegian 
      "whaling" ships 12,200 tons each in the Antarctic waters 
      south of South Georgia.
 
      
 
 
4. British ship (5,000 tons) has been bombed and sunk of Harwich. 
      No further news received concerning "Almeda Star", 
      "Oealandic" or the Greek ship mentioned in third sub-paragraph, 
      paragraph one of the summary of the 17th.
 
      
 
 
5. 
Royal Air Force.
 
 
      
Libya.
 On the night of the 17th/18th, our aircraft dropped 
      l3 tons of bombs on "Tobruk" and started a very large 
      fire near petrol dumps.
 
      
 
 
6. All home operations on the 18th and the night of the 19th/2Oth 
      were cancelled owing to weather.
 
      
 
 
7. 
German Air Force.
 
      January 19th considerable enemy activity over shipping off the 
      south and east coasts. A bomber was shot down into the sea by 
      our fighters. Only three enemy aircraft penetrated a short distance 
      inland over the South East Coast.