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and maximum of twelve against Yugoslavia. 
      Roumania Banat some nine divisions.
 
      
 
 
6. 
Libya
. German troops now believed 
      to amount to one light armoured (Colonial) 
 
      division, one armoured division and advance elements two infantry 
      divisions. 
 
      Another armoured division thought on the way.
 
      
 
 
7. 
On April 4th
, our troops holding 
      position on escarpment about twenty-five miles 
 
      east of Benghasi withstood German attack by two battalions supported 
      by tanks. 
 
      Enemy column of fifty armoured fighting vehicles reported at 
      Benina moving east and 
 
      small enemy column moving northeast from Benghasi on the coastal 
      road.
 
      
 
 
8. 
Ethiopia.
 Our advanced troops have 
      entered Addis Ababa.
 
      
 
 
9. 
Royal Air Force
. Direct hit claimed 
      at Brest on night of the 4th/5th was from low 
 
      level with a 1,900 lb. bomb on "Gneisenau".
 
      
 
 
10 . 
German Air Force.
 Night of the 
      5th/6th, slight enemy activity during the 
 
      period. Some damage and casualties caused at one Royal Air Force 
      Aerodrome.
 
      Albania and Greece. German aircraft bombed Corfu three times 
      on the 3rd and Italian 
 
      fighters machine-gunned Heraklion aerodrome on the 4th.
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