STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501 Page 242 · 242 of 283
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501
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241 Division IV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for personal radio and light duty. Use of service! To destroy your own responsibility! / § 353 c RSTGB / .a.d. Reports of 19 and 20 October 194o. 1210.0 Lo n d o n - English. The British Admiralty announces that yesterday afternoon three large German auxiliary ships were attacked off the French coast. One of the German ships was sunk. The British ships had no damage and no losses. The German report that in the encounter between German destroyers and light British units near Brest one of the British ships got a torpedo hit, does not correspond to the truth. The light cruiser Ajax, who this week three ital. At the port of Alexandria, tanks were leased over the bullet holes on the ship's walls, while the crew brought ammunition supplies on board. Greenwood explained yesterday: What was done to London will be double paid back to Berlin. The brit. Yesterday, the Minister of Aviation announced that German troops were being boarded in the canal ports on September 1, which was either the preparation of a real Jnvasion or its rehearsal. After a devastating attack by the British Air Force, the Veber survivors were brought back to the land in silence the next day. Their biggest daily attack on England. On that day, 185 German machines were shot down. This defeat followed then still frequent devastating attacks on the Jnvasion ports. No matter what the Germans were up to, their plans were thrown over the heap by the British Air Force. These revelations by the British Ministry of Aviation about the great blows inflicted on the German Jnvasion ports and the German Yndustrie were published by the American press in general. The British Air Force is greatly appreciated because it destroyed the German plans. It is said in the American. Press that during the attacks on the German Jnvasion ports about 4o. - 5o.oo German soldiers were killed, wounded or drowned. All hospitals in the coastal towns had to be provided for German wounded. New-York Times explains that all these facts were confirmed by descriptions of impartial witnesses. Admiralty announces the loss of the auxiliary petrol boat Girl Mary. The attacks of the British Air Force were directed last night against Kiel, Hanburg, Emden, Lübeck. Furthermore, an aluminium factory in Lünen b/Dortmund, the river port of Duisburg, a factory near Dortmund, railway lines and railway stations in Dortmund, Schwerte, Osnabrück. All brit. Machinery -2 -