TELEGRAM RECEIVED FROM LONDON DATED
 
      APRIL 3rd, 1941.
 
      
 
 
1. Naval.
 
      "Worcestershire" escorting convoy about 680 miles west 
      of Bloody Foreland torpedoed 
 
      0444 April 3rd. She proceeded to N.N.E. at slow speed. Three 
      ships this convoy 
 
      torpedoed earlier in the night.
 
      On April 2nd we lost one armed trawler bombed off St. Abb's Head.
 
      
 
 
2. "Prince Henry" A.M.C. intercepted 
      on April 1st west of Callao German Muncros and 
 
      Hermonthis. Both set on fire by crews. Salvage unlikely.
 
      British submarine has sunk 3,645 tons of Italian merchant ships 
      and a U-boat in 
 
      central Mediterranean.
 
      
 
 
3. "Scharnhorst", "Gneisenau" 
      still at Brest April 3rd. Coastal aircraft on April 
 
      2nd sank 3,000 tons of escorted merchant ships off Hook of Holland 
      and later 
 
      dropped four bombs on either merchant ship or auxiliary off Norderney.
 
      
 
 
4.Two Italian destroyers sunk by naval aircraft 
      off Port Sudan morning of April 
 
      3rd.
 
      
 
 
5. Military.
 
      Libya.
 
      Up to 1.30 p.m. April 2nd. Our advanced units attacked April 
      1st by a column of a 
 
      German Armoured Division. Some of our forward posts were overrun 
      and our troops are 
 
      withdrawing to a position north of Agedabia.
 
      
 
 
6. Bulgaria.
 
      Estimated twenty complete German Divisions in Bulgaria, including 
      four armoured. 
 
      Distribution of six S.W. six Centre 8 S.E. facing Turkey.