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Telegram from London 
                    dated October 23rd, 1941.               
                                                            
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
H.M.S. "Aurania" 
      has arrived in Clyde. In convoy reported attacked 21st, one British 
      ship 4,099 tons was torpedoed and sunk and one British ship 5,281 
      tons, is missing. Several aircraft of Coastal Command took action 
     against four U-boats sighted in vicinity of this convoy
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
Day of 21st sweeps were 
      carried out over St. Omer area in the course of which 13 enemy 
      fighters were destroyed and 4 damaged. 21 Blenheims attacked 
      one motor vessel of 1500 tons and one schooner of 600 tons off 
      the East Tunisian coast using 2 1/2 tons of bombs; schooner blew 
            up and sank, motor-vessel was set on fire.      
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
Night of 21st/22nd twenty-four 
      Wellingtons made successful attacks on Naples. About 120 aircraft 
      bombed Bremen, targets including Deutsche Schiff Werke and eight 
      Hudsons started good fires at Aarhus petrol harbor. Night of 
      22nd/23rd 161 aircraft dispatched to deliver a heavy attack on 
      Manmheim light attack on Havre and Brest. Enemy employed about 
      40 aircraft in widespread attacks over United Kingdom. Night 
      fighters shot down 3 certain and one probable; no serious damage 
                           was caused.                      
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
                          Russia.                           
                                                            
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
On 22nd October Molotov 
      who had arrived from Moscow with other members of Soviet Government 
    outlined situation to His Majesty's Ambassador as follow
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