THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501

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Division IV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for the personal 129 radio and light service use! To destroy immediately on your own responsibility! /SSCS t.a.d. Reports of November 2nd 1940. la di/.40. SENDER LONDON /English/: A report has arrived at the Ministry of Aviation, according to which eijer of the two largest German passenger steamers, the "Europe" at a brit. Airstrike on Bremen mittschiffs was hit. A proof of how heavy the British Air Force is hitting the German food supply is the fact that now large grain and canned stocks are carefully stacked up in Bohemia and Moravia. Communiqué of the British Ministry of the Navy: Last night there was a battle in the North Sea between light brit. The enemy vehicle was sunk. Our armed forces, which took the ships on board, suffered neither losses nor damage. The foreign-policy editor of a major American newspaper could state: Confidential information from Europe, Asia, Africa and America leads to the production that Hitler and Musso- lini make desperate attempts to achieve any diplomatic success through which their reputation is to be raised again. It is well known that the reputation of Germany and Italy in the South American countries has suffered severely, since for many months the numerous agents of the axis have declared with certainty that decisive events will come in September. Luftwaffe last night were: ammunition warehouses and other objects in Berlin, harbour and docking facilities in Kiel, Hamburg and Brenerhaven, plants for the production of synthetic drift openers in Hamburg and Gelsenkirchen, an important power plant in Hambörn, Äbstellgeleisen and railway systems in Bremen, the Rheinhafen Duisburg-Ruhrort, a port occupied by the Germans in Normandy. Of all these attacks, only three machines have not returned despite the very strong resistance in some places. Officially, it is announced that during the German attacks of the last night, extensive material damage was done in various areas of England. In the course of today's day, the hostile activity over England was only small. Cairo had three air raids this morning. However, the Italian machines were driven by Flak before they could still launch bombs. - 2 -