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24y Division IV Strictly confidential! Radio group Only for the personal radio and light service. Use of service.! To destroy own responsibility .8//40! Test no. ( § 353 c RSTGB ). Reports of 17 October 194o. .a.d l.18/10.40. Lo n d o n- English. Jn the last night grasped the brit. Luftwaffe, despite extremely unfavourable weather conditions with success the following cities and objects: Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen, Cuxhaven, the plants for the production of synthetic fuel in Leuna, ammunition plants, power plants in Saxony. 5 btit. Machines did not return. From 5th - 5th October the British Air Force attacked a total of 52 different destinations in Germany and the occupied territories. Various places were attacked often, e.g. Hamburg 5 times, Gelsenkirchen 4 times, Berlin 2 times, etc. - The British fleet sunk in the past week: 3 ital, destroyers, 4 ital. aircraft, 2 itals, auxiliary cruisers, 2 Ital, trosships, 3 German tros ships, 2 German escort ships, 1 German merchant ship. During the last night a German plane was shot down. Several areas of England were bombed, but London was once again the main target of the attacks. No great damage was done, as the bad weather prevented the German pilots from reaching targets. Among the hit "military" objects are: 2 churches, 2 hospitals, 1 cemetery, 1 brewery, 1 asylum and i home for rotted children." The Minister of War is currently in Egypt. He was received by King Faruk soon after his arrival in Cairo, with whom he had a cordial discussion. Eden has also already made contact with various political leaders and the authorities responsible for the defence of the country. The former Deputy Minister of War of the USA Johnson explained that in two years the UšA will be upgraded in a strength, as Germany was in seven years. The enormous naval, air and military development program, which the U.S. is now carrying out, will certainly be completed quickly, since it has been planned and extended for a long time. If the USA had already begun to expand the air force in the year l934, they would have wasted only time and money. The Germans too must now renew their air force, since the last brit. The Deputy American Marine Minister explained that the American warships will be equipped with new turbines, which will make them superior to the ships of other fleets in terms of radius of action, speed and low consumption. -2-