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.