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       Telegram from London dated November 5th, 1941.       
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                          Naval.                            
M.G.B. missing from operation off Calais night 
              of 2nd/3rd has been towed into harbor.        
 
      British tanker 6470 tons, reported attacked by surface raider 
      0530/4th 620 miles west south west of Freetown; various forces 
                         ordered to area.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
Suez Canal temporarily closed after unexploded object dropped 
                      south of middle lakes.                
 
      In three of the ships of French convoy ordered into South African 
              port there were 481 service personnel.        
 
                                                            
 
 
Five ships totaling 22,266 tons have been sunk out of convoys 
      C52 east of Newfoundland; from four of these all crews but four 
                         men known saved.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
British ship 4,953 tons believed torpedoed 300 miles west 
 of Walfish Bay a.m. 3rd but messages intercepted were incom
 
                                                            
 
 
October 22nd, His Majesty's submarine "Urge" sank 
      in Gulf of Hammamet 1500 ton southbound escorted merchant ship 
      and 4000 ton merchant ship at anchor. His Majesty's submarine 
      "Ursula" scored two hits medium sized merchant ship 
      southbound in convoy a.m. 18 (sic) 50 miles southwest of Susa. 
                    This vessel probably sank.              
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                         Military.                          
                                                            
 
      Finland. Despite Finnish claims, Russians categorically deny 
         any German or Finnish advance on Murmansk front.   
 
      Crimea. Germans have captured Bakhchisarai (between Simferopol 
      and Sebastopol) and their claim to have captured 
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