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TELEGRAM FROM LONDON 
                     DATED OCTOBER 6th 1941.                
                                                            
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
Reference telegram of October 
      5th. Seven Swordfish attacked convoy of six ships northeast of 
      Tripoli (L); one ship estimated 9,000 tons, one ship estimated 
      6,000 tons left in sinking condition, one estimated 8,000 tons 
      possibly damaged. Believed one of the former sunk, reconnaissance 
            next day showing one ship missing convoy.       
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
2. H.M. Submarine sank 
      torpedo boat GENERALI class northwest of Messina on September 
      27th. Another of H.M. Submarines hit with torpedo medium Size 
      merchant ship in convoy escorted by destroyers north bound 4 
les west of (words omitted) night lst/2nd October, result un
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
3. Reference telegram of 
      September 30th; Submarine torpedoed tanker LIRI which got into 
      CROTONE; sank 3050 ton ship off ORTONA; also sank by gunfire 
      pilot cutter, shore batteries compelled her withdrawal
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
4. H.M. Submarine on September 
      26th torpedoed 5,000 ton transport in the Aegean. On September 
      28th, torpedoed large escorted merchant sip, result unobserved. 
      On September 27th she also sank by gunfire CAIQUE full of Italian 
                            soldiers.                       
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
5. At Tobruk on October 
      3rd H.M. Trawler sunk by bombs during air raid. British tanker 
      TYNEFIELD 5856 tons mined and sunk Suez Canal am. October 5th. 
               Canal probably reopened October 5th.         
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
6. RATNAGIRI (R.I.N.) captured 
      fully laden how off Berbera on October 5th on passage Madagascar 
                           to Djibuti.                      
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