TEIEGRAM RECEIVED FR0M LONDON DATED SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1941 British submarine torpedoed and sank 2,000 ton merchant ship a.m. 13th in Rolvsoy Sound near the North Cape. On 17th she attacked 3,000 tons merchant ship in the same area, 1 hit estimat British tanker 5,729 tons in convoy mined p.m. 21st near Holland light was blown in half by mine, after part sank. P.M. 19th, Blenheims dispatched and attacked liner reported leaving Tripoli failed to locate her but attacked and scored four hits on flotilla leader outside harbor. Night of 21st/22nd, owing to weather no bombing operations by Royal Air Force Yesterday during operations over France 24 enemy aircraft shot down certain, 8 probably, 13 damaged. We lost 14 fighters 11 pilots saved. GERMAN AIR FORCE. 21st/22nd. About 50 enemy aircraft mostly engaged in sea-mining and anti-shipping operations off East Coast. Little doubt Germans obtained foothold several islands of Oesel. German's claim to one hundred and fifty thousand prisoners in Kiev area may well be true but encircled Russian troops east of city still resisting vigorously. Germans have cut rail and road communications between Dniepropetrovsk and split Crimea. |