TELEGRAM FROM LONDON DATED OCTOBER 29th, 1941 A mixed cruiser and destroyer force bombarded the Bardia area on the night of 25th/26th. 2 F.A.A. Albacores dropped flares illuminating the harbor for this bombardment and also bombed the entrance to the harbor. The M/V Georgic 27,759 tons bombed and sunk off Suez on the 11th July has been salvaged. On the night of 26th/27th and on the following day, 4 Wellington and 9 Maryland attacked the docks at Dunkirk. During operations over Northern Prance in daylight on the 28th our fighters attacked barges and factories near Dunkirk, 2 M.E, 109's were destroyed and 1 was destroyed on the gro A Hudson Aircraft hit a medium sized merchant ship off Terschelling on the 28th. On the night of the 28th/29th the Royal Air Force raided Cherbourg and the Skoda works. All aircraft returned. 85 enemy aircraft operated against the United Kingdom during the night of the 28th/29th dropping some bombs in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. No important damage was done. One enemy bomber was destroyed by night fig RUSSIA: Kalinin Sectors Russian counter attacks are preventing Germans from consolidating their positions, Moscow Sector : The Germans have made slight progress North of Kubinsk on the Mozhaisk-Moscow Road and East of Narofominsk, The Russians are counter-attacking in the direction of Mozh Donetz Basin : The Russians are resisting strongly and the Germans have made little progress. Romtov Sector : No change is reported. |