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        TELEGRAM FROM LONDON DATED NOVEMBER 6, 1941.        
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                          Summary.                          
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                             1.                             
                            NAVAL                           
. H.M. Ship "Neptune" and His Majesty's 
      A.S. "Hobart" took part in bombardment of Bardia area 
                   night of October 25th/26th.              
 
                                                            
 
 
2. U-boat not attacked by raider probably shot at British 
      tanker W.S.W. of Freetown. 0nly one shot fired at dawn. She is 
                 proceeding apparently undamaged.           
 
                                                            
 
 
3. Now understood that only four ships were torpedoed out 
                         of convoys C 52.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
                            4.                              
                         MILITARY.                          
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
Russia. Central Front. German attacks from Kalinin to Tula 
              are reported to have made no progress.        
 
      Crimea. On November 3rd Germans had reached point 14 miles from 
      Sebastopol. Germans claim to have reached Black Sea south of 
              Yaila Mountains is as yet unconfirmed.        
 
                                                            
 
 
                             5.                             
                      Royal Air Force.                      
                                                            
 
      United Kingdom. Night of November 4th/5th docks at 0stend and 
                  Dunkirk received 13 tons H.E.             
 
                                                            
 
 
6. Day of November 5th. Over Northern France fighters attacked 
           MT railway trains barges and gun positions.      
 
                                                            
 
 
                            7.                              
                     November 5th/6th.                      
 Main targets Cherbourg (25) anti 
             shipping off Frisian Islands (Siemens).        
 
                                                            
 
 
                            8.                              
                        Middle East.                        
 Third and fourth dumps near Benghazi 
      and off Tobruk-Bardia Road and workshops near Berca aerodrome 
                             bombed.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
9. A.M. November 5th. Eight Blenheims attacked convoy two 
      merchant ships; four direct hits on one merchant ship left sinking 
      fast 92 degrees W. Benghazi. Second merchant ship Straddled destroyer 
      machine-gunned. Two Blenheims were lost. 
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