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       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. 
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