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. |