TELEGRAM RECEIVED FROM LONDON DATED APRIL
10TH, 1941
NAVAL
.
On April 9th unknown ship reported attacked by raider southwest
of Freetown.
2. His Majesty's Destroyer Avon Vale and an
armed trawler together brought down bomber off
Falmouth taking two prisoners a.m. April 9th.
P.M. April 9th
.
His Majesty's ship Valorous shot down an ME 110 attacking a convoy
off
Harwich.
One minesweeper trawler attacked by enemy
aircraft off Lowestoft a.m. April 9th.
Was destroyed.
Minesweeper trawler damaged by near miss mine
off Liverpool p.m. April 9th.
A 3,000 ton Merchant vessel escorted by naval
units, attacked and possibly hit with torpedo by
British aircraft 30 miles east of Ushant.
3.
MIILITARY. LIBYA.
April 7th.
Some of our armoured forces withdrawing from forward positions
by road west of Derna were
cut off. A severe dust storm hampered the withdrawal of motorized
forces from Mechili on
April 8th. There are indications that the impetus of the enemy's
thrust is diminishing and that his
administrative situation is acute.
YUGOSLAVIA
Germans have crossed the Danube at two points near the Iron Gates
and Drava in direction of
Virovitica, which they have occupied. Five German