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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
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