STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501 Page 110 · 110 of 283
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501
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109 Division IV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for personal broadcasting and Helldienst. Use of service! .d.d. Jn own responsibility a to destroy! Examiner. /.26/80.40. ( § 353 c RSTGB ). Reports of 25 November 194o. Lon d o n - English. The attacks of the German Air Force goods in the last night especially directed against West England. A city was attacked particularly violently. The attacks began with the dawn and lasted until about midnight. Several houses and business buildings were damaged. There were some dead and injured. London had a relatively quiet night. In the course of the attacks 2 enemy machines were shot down. + During yesterday's daily attack on England, 2 German Kempf and one hunting machine were shot down, this morning a German fighter plane was shot down in the sea off Dover, when a small formation of German machines flew over the coast. In the past night, airweapon was mainly directed against shipyards and Jndustrieanlagen in Hamburg fires and explosions were caused. Jm area around Hamburg, the Gaswerk in Altona and a chemical factory Harburg-Wilhelms-burg were attacked. Further objects were docks in Wilhelmshaven, enemy airports, seaplane bases, flak and sham gun batteries. Particularly heavy attacks were directed against the shipyards in Den Helder and the port of Boulogne. Further Hoek of Holland and Kristiansand were flew in southern Norway. - A plane was lost. From Athens is reported: The fights on the south front are continued, where the heights of the Argyrocastro were occupied. The retreat roads of the Jtaliener to Argyrocastro are covered by abandoned tanks and other material. The aircraft fires at the military aerodrome of Koritza were destroyed before the occupation by the Greeks by bomb attacks. The debris of the machines destroyed on the ground is scattered over the whole of the airfield. The loss of this important air base explains the dwindling de ital. Air activity over Greece. Jm Sudan continues the British troops, after the conquest of Ggllabad the military offensive. Communiqué from Cairo: Jm South Sudan continues to harden our troops in the area east of Gallabad to the enemy. At all other prints the situation is unchanged, Die brit. Luftwaffe has carried out further successful attacks against ital, bases in North and East Africa. Details about a battle that took place south of Sidi et Barrani: Brit. Tanks attacked an ital. motorized column and chased after they had destroyed or damaged ll ital tanks, the rest returned to their base. A lot of war material was captured and a number of prisoners were made. Significant was the failure of the neighboring ital. Divisions, which did not attempt to come to the aid of their distressed camera, - An ital, prisoner was amazed at the -2-