TELEGRAM FROM LONDON
 
      DATED APRIL 1st, 1941.
 
      
 
 
Naval. Lord Selborne 
      A/P trawler mined sunk off Humber a.m. March 31st. Captain 9 
 
      officers 300 ratings Bonaventure saved.
 
      
 
 
2. At 20.10/March 31st. 
      3 H.E. bombs dropped Portsmouth on dockyard Canteen Unicorn 
 
      Gate and torpedo store. 5 casualties.
 
      
 
 
3. Scharnhorst, Gneisenau 
      still at Brest March 31st.
 
      
 
 
4. At Punta Arenas 
      Costa Rica on March 31st one German and one Italian ship set 
      on fire 
 
      by crews when authorities tried to board.
 
      
 
 
5. ROYAL AIR FORCE. 
      March 31st. 26 Medium bombers, some with fighter escort, sent 
 
      to attack shipping and land targets. Two tankers set on fire 
      off Havre and off Dutch coast a
 
      large destroyer hit twice heavily listing with clouds of smoke 
      coming from stern; 2000 ton
 
      merchant vessel also hit, two bombers lost.
 
      
 
 
6. Night of March 31st/April 
      1st. 39 heavy bombers sent to Emden and Bremen one 
 
      missing.
 
      
 
 
7. Night of March 29th/30th. 
      4 heavy bombers attacked Amsterdam docks; on March 30th
 
      7 aircraft bombed wireless station at Asmara and 10 medium bombers 
      dropped over 4 tons
 
      of H.E. on military targets at Elbasan in Albania ·
 
      
 
 
8. German Air Force 
      March 31st. Little enemy activity one enemy fighter destroyed 
      by a
 
      Spitfire near Dunkirk. Night of March 31st, April 1st. 71 Aircraft 
      operating of which 26
 
      mine laying, chiefly in Humber area.
 
      
 
 
9. Ethiopia. 6 Italian 
      fighters damaged 4 of our aircraft on t %he aerodrome of Jigjiga 
      on March
 
      30th, 2 of them shot down.