Telegram received from 
      London dated March 31st, 1941
 
      
 
 
NAVAL
 
      Seawolf attacked by aircraft off Berwick p.m. March 30th. Fighters 
      shot it down.
 
      
 
 
2. At 3.07 a.m. March 
      31st Bonaventure torpedoed and sunk by U-boat, escorting 
 
      convoy 90 miles south of Crete. Hereward picked up survivors 
      and U-boat hunted by 
 
      Stuart.
 
      
 
 
Cruiser Sheffield and 
      four destroyers a.m. March 30th intercepted east bound French 
 
      convoy of four ships escorted by destroyer Simoun. Convoy refused 
      to stop and 
 
      entered Nemours, Algeria. Simoun protested and claimed our ships 
      were inside 
 
      territorial waters. Six-inch shore battery opened fire. Sheffield 
      replied, hit it 
 
      repeatedly and caused large fire. Whilst returning to Gibraltar 
      Sheffield was 
 
      bombed three times, no hits, no damage.
 
      
 
 
3.During the Mediterranean 
      action of March 28th-29th, three Swordfish lost, crew of 
 
      one safe, one Fulmar forced landing. Two Junker 88's destroyed. 
      Kandahar 
 
      intercepted Bertram Rickmers, German, 4,188 tons, a.m. March 
      30th off Eritrean 
 
      coast, crew abandoned ship fired and scuttling simultaneously. 
      Fu11 details 
 
      awaited.
 
      
 
 
4.A.M. March 31st, 
      bomber command aircraft scored two hits on one ship, three hits 
 
      on another, both perhaps tankers, between Le Havre and Dieppe, 
      both burst into 
 
      flames.
 
      
 
 
5.Strong force of bombers 
      attacked Brest night of March 30th/31st Scharnhorst and 
 
      Gneisenau