Telegram from London dated April 19th, 1941
 
      
 
 
1. 
Naval.
 
      British Hospital ship "Vita" deliberately bombed afternoon 
      of 14th while evacuating casualties from 
 
      Tobruk.
 
      
 
 
2. British submarine sank enemy barque carrying 
      explosives off Morocco on April 14th.
 
      
 
 
3. Sixty thousand two hundred and twenty-nine 
      ships have been convoyed since the beginning of the 
 
      war of which 297 have been lost by enemy action.
 
      
 
 
4. H.M.S. "Aphis" destroyed 5 enemy 
      aircraft during the bombardment of Gazala aerodrome.
 
      
 
 
5. Fire of H.M.S. "Stuart" "Griffin" 
      and "Gnat" enabled our troops to hold Solum - April 
      15th.
 
      
 
 
6. New German battleship "Bismarck" 
      with two Leipzig Cruisers and destroyers reported steering 
 
      North-West into the Skagerrak early April 14th.
 
      
 
 
7. Piraeus reported clear of mines.
 
      
 
 
8. Admiralty House - Portsmouth received direct 
      hit during the enemy air-raid on April 17-18. Three or 
 
      four H.E. 's dropped in the dockyard. No other serious naval 
      damage reported.
 
      
 
 
9.
 Military.
 Greece April 17th.
 
      Our troops withdrew, as arranged, from positions near Miseerini 
      and Servia. On the right flank, they 
 
      were engaged by superior forces and were withdrawing through 
      Peneois Gorge. On the left, German 
 
      troops reported across the river Venetikos, but their progress 
      slow. On the Albanian front, the Greeks 
 
      withdrawing on the 18th on a general line: Sea West of Argyrocastaon-Pernet-Metsovo