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

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214 Division IV Strictly confidential! Radio group Only for the personal service also! Radio and light service To destroy h/I)bs in a certain responsibility! /§ 353c RStGB/. Prif.- No........... t.a.d Reports of 26 and 27 October 1940. h1010.40 SENDER LONDON /English/: Die brit. Luftwaffe attacked the docks and a power plant in Kiel, the shipyards and the Neuburg power station in Hamburg, as well as the Flák positions were attacked. Strong fires broke out everywhere. In addition, fires on the yards v on Bremen, Cuxhaven and the Helder, ships were attacked in the ports of Ostend and Ámsterdam. Other subjects were military operations, the long-distance guns on Cape Grinez, petroleum centers in rice wood and Hamburg, ships in the port of Antwerp, several hostile airfields in the occupied area. Of all these flights jaktrx only one machine did not return. New York Times: The bomb target found in the United States, far superior to all European inventions of this kind, has now been released for use in England. Yesterday, in the press conference, Rossevelt said that he felt that there was a strong possibility that the current international tension would lead to events calling for immediate intervention by America, and the reports of diplomats in Europe and the Far East provide a very serious picture of the situation. The British Communist Party's newspaper writes: England and the US have the strategic key points on both halves of the globe in their hands. These two powers do not need to take refuge in such dramatic steps as the powers of the Axis report of the Ministry of Aviation: The enemy flight activity over England last night was of greater mass and expansion than in the previous nights. In the course of yesterday's daily attacks I4 enemy machines were shot down, It was all about Me l09 fighter planes. The English lost lo machines. 7 pilots are safe. The Ministry of Aviation announces that also numerous German machines were damaged so badly that it is likely that they did not reach their operating ports any more. In the Giornale d'Italia Gayda deals with the extremely difficult task that the Italian armed forces in Egypt have to deal with. He estimates the number of British armed forces at 26o.ooo man. In addition, however, there are still further reinforcements, more than 3o.ooo men on the way to Egypt and australia equips three more divisions for Egypt. Reuter: Neutral industrialists, who came from Germany after several months of residence, report that the German general staff is not aware of whether İteliëhchěhr does so, because it is unable to do so or because the Italians do not want to fight. - 2 -