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Telegraph from London dated April 25th
 
      
 
 
1.
 Naval
. Our destroyers seeking convoy 
      reported off the Tunisian Coast, sank 
 
      Northbound Italian 3,000 ton merchant vessel.
 
      
 
 
2. Legation Staff from Athens were due to 
      arrive at Melos on 24th.
 
      
 
 
3. Enemy aircraft attacked two East Coast 
      convoys night of 24th/25th. One ship only 
 
      damaged.
 
      
 
 
4. 
Military. Greece.
 Front remains 
      quiet apart from demonstrations by enemy 
 
      armoured fighting vehicle %s. There may be indications that the 
      Germans are preparing 
 
      gun emplacements on the north shore of Maliakos Gulf. On April 
      23rd there was 
 
      continuous bombarding of roads particularly from Eleusis to Corinth 
      and to Thebes. 
 
      Small enemy forces reported in Preveza.
 
      
 
 
5. 
Royal Air Force.
 24th. Enemy tanker, 
      about 2,000 tons, destroyed off Stavanger 
 
      and small vessel off Brest. Our fighters shot down two enemy 
      aircraft and damaged a 
 
      third. One of our fighters missing.
 
      Night of 24th/25th. 68 bombers sent to Kiel, 22 to Havre, and 
      a few to Ostend, 
 
      Ijmuiden and Wilhelmshaven. 121 aircraft in all went out. One 
      missing.
 
      
 
 
6. 
Libya. 23rd
. Our fighters engaged 
      large force of enemy aircraft over Tobruk and 
 
      destroyed eight. Three of ours damaged, two pilots safe.
 
      
 
 
7. German Air Force. Night of 24th/25th. About 
      70 enemy aircraft over land and 60 
 
      others mine laying, or against shipping.
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