TELEGRAM FROM LONDON DATED APRIL 4TH, 1941.
 
      
 
 
NAVAL.
 
      Total of nine ships were torpedoed in convoy which WORCESTERSHIRE 
      was escorting.
 
      Naval forces on 3rd April delivered reinforcement of aircraft 
      to Malta.
 
      
 
 
2. British submarine in central Mediterranean 
      attacked south-bound convoy on March 
 
      23rd. Two torpedoes into 12,000 ton ship and one into 6,OOO ton 
      ship.
 
      
 
 
3. Naval aircraft sighted four Italian destroyers 
      dawn on 3rd 19 miles east of Port 
 
      Sudan. One bombed and sunk at 06.15, a Swordfish scored two bomb 
      hits on another 
 
      which caught fire and was abandoned at 14.00 KINGSTON found remaining 
      two 
 
      destroyers close in short south of Jedda. These subsequently 
      anchored and were 
 
      abandoned 15 miles south of Jedda. Only 3 of the original 9 Italian 
      Red Sea 
 
      destroyers remain unaccounted for.
 
      
 
 
4. MILITARY. LIBYA.
 
      On April 2nd enemy tanks threatened the flank of our support 
      group and drove it out 
 
      of AGEDABIA to area 35 miles to the northeast. Later our armoured 
      forces were 
 
      ordered to withdraw by the coast route and to impose the maximum 
      delay on any 
 
      attempted advance on Bengazi. April 3rd, in face of determined 
      advance by strong 
 
      Italian and German forces our light covering detachments were 
      withdrawn to selected 
 
      concentration areas, evacuating Bengazi. In their withdrawal 
      our troops inflicted 
 
      considerable casualties on the enemy in personnel and in ranks.