TELEGRAM FROM LONDON DATED OCTOBER 3rd, 1941. September 10th His Majesty's submarine torpedoed 3,000 ton ship in Candia Harbor. September 19th. She scored one possible hit on transport off Gidoro I 2. Royal Air Force. October lst/2nd. Off Dutch Coast Hudson hit 2,000 ton merchant vessel and dropped bombs close to 2,500 tons tanker. 3. On October 2nd reconnaissance aircraft off Norway made direct hits on two merchant ships of 1,000 and 2,000 tons. Same aircraft bombed the docks MJovk (sic) where factory building hit. Another aircraft off Aalesund attacked merchant ship estimated at 10,O00 tons claimed three direct hits but bombs did not explode. Two Hurricanes attacked and left sinking large armoured barge off Knocke. During offensive operations our fighters shot down six enemy aircraft certain, three probably and damaged four. We lost four but one pilot safe. 4. Night of 2nd/3rd. Enemy warships Brest attacked by five aircraft. Smoke screen prevented observation of results. 5. Southshields and Dover attacked night 2nd/3rd. 60 aircraft crossed the coast; night fighters shot down three. Considerable damage to Tyneside but not serious. 6. Russia. German drive towards Kharkov is meeting strong Russian resistan |