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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
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