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269 Department of Cultural Policy Strictly confidential! Only for the personal radio and light service use! In own responsibility to Pruz. - n.76.. destroy! /§ 353c RStGB/. Be r i c h t e vom ll. Oktober 1940. SENDER LONDON /English/: About the attacks of the British Air Force last night: In Hamburg an oil tank flew into the air. The DNB admitted that the attacks of this night were the heaviest that have taken place so far. Many houses had been destroyed or damaged over a wide area. 3 dead were to be lamented. Thus, the DNB pays an involuntary tribute to the British Air Force's safety. In the harbour of Wilhelmshaven warships and the harbour facilities were bombed, in the port of Kiel especially the Krupp shipyards. Strong fires were launched. Fires broke out in: Hanover, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Magdeburg, and Leuna. Ships were also attacked in the ports of Boulogne, Calais, Le Havre and Brest, the coastal batteries near Cherborurg, the port facilities and ships in Vlissingen, Amstersam and the Helder, iron railway lines near Soest, Hamm and Gelsenkirchen, airfields southwest of Bremen and in Ostheim in Bayer, the seaplane base of Nor derney. All British. Machines returned, 2 German machines were shot down. As is now known, another German bomber was shot down yesterday over England, which increases the number of German machines destroyed yesterday over Britain to 5. 5 British machines were lost. 2 of the pilots are in safety. The air war in the Middle East reported a successful attack on Tobruk. Several ships in the port were hit, fire broke out on an oil tanker. Also in Italian East Africa bxxeixkenerxamsxxkmek several militant bases were attacked. All machines returned. The German airstrikes of last night were again directed mainly against London and its suburbs. However, awh other districts in England and Wales were attacked. On London and the suburbs explosive and fire bombs were dropped, which damaged a number of residential and commercial buildings. Bombs were dropped on cities in South Wales and on 3 cities in south-eastern England. Admiralty communiqué: Heavy and light units of the British fleet took fire yesterday evening at the German-occupied port of Cherbourg, where German ships were observed by reconnaissance aircraft. The success of this action was due in particular to the good interaction between the fleet and the air force. Large fires broke out in Cherbourg, which could still be observed 4o miles from the coast. The British fleet only met with resistance when they headed towards home -2-