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      Telegram from London dated 14th September 1941.       
 
                                                            
 
 
At 0500/12 naval aircraft carried out attack on shipping on 
          Bodo Fiord one ship estimated 2,000 tons sunk.    
 
                                                            
 
 
2. In Glom Fiord power station possibly hit and hits obtained 
           on aluminum works where fires were started.      
 
                                                            
 
 
3. Night of September llth/12th a Soviet MTB claims torpedoed 
            one destroyer, one transport, off Peteamo.      
 
                                                            
 
 
4. Royal Air Force September 12th/13th. 132 tons H.E's and 
      8000 incendiaries dropped on Frankfurt; cloudy conditions hampered 
      accurate bombing. 25 tons bombs dropped Cherbourg docks. Hudson 
      made direct hit on 4,000 tons merchant vessel near Borkum, another 
                 2,000 tons vessel probably hit.            
 
                                                            
 
 
5. September 13th/14th. 154 aircraft dispatched Brest and 
      Havre docks. All returned safely visibility Brest was excellent 
             until spoilt by effects of smoke-screen.       
 
                                                            
 
 
6. Egypt. September 11th, 12th Wellington successfully attacked 
 Benghazi Harbor. One Italian bomber shot down near Mersa Ma
 
                                                            
 
 
7. North Russia. September 12th. Our fighters carried out 
      sorties on aerodromes and six sorties escorting Russian bombers. 
      One patrol destroyed two M.E. 109's probably destroyed another 
            damaged one Henschel. We lost one fighter.      
 
                                                            
 
 
8. Air Force September 13th/14th. 25 enemy aircraft sea-mining 
                        in Thames Estuary                   
 
                                                            
 
 
9. Germans reported taken Svanka 60 miles east of Leningrad. 
      Further German progress southeast of Gomel and north from Kremenchug 
      is diminishing the prospects of successful extrication of Russians 
      in Kiev salient. 
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