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       TELEGRAM FROM LONDON DATED NOVEMBER 2nd, 1941.       
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                          Summary.                          
 
                                                            
                     Military. Russia.                      
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
Finland. Finns have made progress northwest of Lake Onega. 
      Leningrad and Moscow sectors: Germans are now immediately threatening 
      Tula. Kursk sector: Germans have advanced energetically. Donets 
      basin: German pressure is continuing. Rostov: No change. Crimea: 
                  German advance is continuing.             
 
                                                            
 
 
                            2.                              
                      Royal Air Force.                      
 Reference hits claimed on shipping 
      night of October 31 - November 1 total now ten merchant ships 
      including Retchenfels 7800 tons which ship hit by complete salvo 
      of bombs, plus one 7,000 ton tanker and one Flak ship already 
      mentioned. Five other merchant ships of various tonnage attacked, 
        results unobserved; several ships machine-gunned.   
 
                                                            
 
 
3. Night of October 31 - November l, Hamburg received 83 tons 
      of high explosive, Bremen 27 tons, Dunkirk 27 tons and Boulogne 
                             l0 tons.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
4. Daylight November l: Beaufort aircraft claims torpedoing 
      tanker Altmark class 18,000 tons in LaPallice. Fighters attacked 
      targets in northern France including factories, goods trains, 
      two-guardian ships and wireless station. Blenheims bombed Lannion 
                            aerodrome.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
5. Night of November 1/2; approximately 175, mainly to Keil 
                          130, Brest 17.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
                            6.                              
                      German Air Force                      
. Forty enemy aircraft crossed the 
      coast of the United Kingdom, scattered bombarding Cheshire, North 
      Wales, considerable damage to part of the premises of Shell - 
      Mex, Ellesmere port. 
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