Telegram from London dated April 2nd.
 
      
 
 
1. Naval. Red Sea. Air reconnaissance reports 
      two Italian destroyers having left 
 
      Massawa, one reported later as having been sunk 40 miles northeast 
      of Massawa. 
 
      Further details not available, destroyer sunk believed to be 
      "Pantera".
 
      
 
 
2. Attacks on Shipping. April 1st. British 
      ship (9,950 tons), independently inward 
 
      bound, torpedoed 250 miles southwest of Iceland.
 
      
 
 
3. Homeward bound convoy attacked three times 
      by aircraft in Bristol channel. Three 
 
      British tankers (totalling 24,900 tons) and two Norwegian tankers 
      (totalling 16,700 
 
      tons) damaged. Two British tankers reported burning fiercely. 
      One Norwegian tanker 
 
      towed into port.
 
      
 
 
4.
 Military. Eritrea.
 Mobile column 
      ordered to advance on Massawa where resistance 
 
      expected.
 
      
 
 
5. 
Ethiopia
. Serious resistance not 
      expected until Miesso some 90 miles west off 
 
      Harar is reached.
 
      
 
 
6. Movement of German Troops towards Yugoslavian 
      frontier reported to have begun.
 
      
 
 
7. 
Royal Air Force. 
April 1st. Seven 
      E-boats machine-gunned and 4 enemy naval 
 
      trawlers attacked off Dunkirk. Off the Danish coast merchant 
      ship (2,000 tons) 
 
      torpedoed by Beaufort; ship left completely enveloped in smoke. 
      From these and 
 
      other operations, one of our aircraft missing.
 
      
 
 
8. Night of March 30th-March 31st Wellingtons 
      bombed docks at Tripoli and a convoy 
 
      5 miles outside the harbour with good effect.
 
      
 
 
9. German Air Force. April 1st. During daylight 
      enemy activity over South and 
 
      southeast coasts. Mining