TELEGRAM RECEIVED FROM LONDON DATED APRIL
7th, 1941.
NAVAL.
Greek
7,000 ton ship in convoy attacked by aircraft 170 miles northwest
of
Bloody Foreland A.M. April 6th. Believed hit by torpedoes still
afloat and
considered salvageable.
2. On April 6th air attacks on snipping east
coast continued. One big ship damaged,
one small sunk by bomb. Piraeus air raided night of April 6th/
April 7th. Three
ships hit, several burnt out, one ship blowing up along side
caused many fires
ashore and on ships. Perth had sailed earlier. Calcutta and Ajax
reported safe
sailed magnificently through thick smoke and over mines.
3. Three escorted French merchant vessels
all with troops and one other ship passed
Gibraltar west-bound P.M. April 6th.
4. At 7.30 A.M. April 6th, three German destroyers
attacked by coastal aircraft off
Cherbourg. One hit foreward with bomb not seen to explode. At
12.30 Beaufort
torpedoed one destroyer accompanying ships; heavy anti-aircraft
fire prevented
waiting to see results.
5. Brest at 2.00 p.m. April 6th. One battle
cruiser Gneisenau was undocked and
lying Rade d'Abri. At 6.30 P.M. ship believed to be tanker close
alongside her.
6.
MILITARY
. At 6.00 P.M. April 6th
enemy positions reliably reported as follows:
XL Army Corps advancing on Skoplje; second armoured division
from PETRIC advancing
westward in the direction of STIP. 0pposition in this sector
reported slight. Sixth
mountain division east of Lake Doiran and believed moving southward.
This division
being met by