English Translation

- 4 - /63 Reuter reports from Athens that three Italian battalions were destroyed on the Epirus front. In today's attacks on England, 8 of the Italian machines were shot down in an attack on a escort train in the Thames estuary of Hurricane machines. l2 of the German machines were also shot down during attacks on escorts. A Dornier machine was shot down by the Home Army. The Italian machines attacked in formations of 15 - 2o bombers and about 6o hunters. They were forced to drop their bombs into the sea. The nests of the Italian machines shot down crashed into the ocean. This was today the first daily attack by the Italians. Of the German aircraft that were destroyed, 4 Ju 87, 6 Me lo9 and a seaplane were. Only a few of the attackers managed to advance to London. The damage was small. At night London had the shortest alarm for several days.