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

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Division IV Strictly confidential! Wy Gruppe Rundfunk Only for personal radio and light service use! To be destroyed on your own responsibility! 4/082 on /§ 353 c RStGB/. Test.- No.... t.d.d Reports of December 13, 1940. 10p12.40. SENDER LONDON /English/: Yesterday and at night the British air attacks on Italian bases and T sports continued in North Africa. Particularly severe attack on Tobruk. City and port damaged.Plugs were attacked, machines were destroyed on the ground. Brit.Jäger accompanied the British troops on the advance. Transport vehicles of the Italians destroyed and scattered. Three Italian and three British machines were lost. The British troops are now cleaning up the Western Battlefield.The Italians are abandoning entire units when they withdraw, and a lot of material is captured.Until recently, the loot has not been overlooked. Tanks, tankers, trucks, guns, MG and other weapons and supplies in huge quantities are captured. The Italian troops are disorganized and scattered over a wide area. The battlefield extends over lo00 - l20 km. It is not yet known how far the British vanguards have advanced. General Wawel and air marshal Lengmore? have taken care of the advanced units and were very pleased. Huch in ital.East Africa were attacked bases. Armed forces in Africa are in a good mood and explain that for the first time they have the opportunity to fight against the Italians. The Greeks have made progress on all fronts despite bad weather. The case of Plissura? and Tepelini is considered only a matter of time. The Zej l of the Italian divisions against the Greeks is estimated to be l4. Furthermore, another advance of the Greek to the northNord is reported on the coastal road of Santi Quaranta.Traktors and snow ploughs were used.Approximately 4oo Albanians managed to escape the Italians and return to their homeland. Brit.Admirality announces: A British submarine "Sunfish" sunk a German 4ooo tons ship with ore cargo near Norway.The same submarine attacked a German oil tanker and damaged it severely. Yesterday evening Brest was attacked. Before the holl.Coast full hit by brit.Bonber on German freighters. During the last night two enemy machines were shot over England. The attacks were directed against the territory around Shefield. Houses were damaged, small losses. The starls attack ended only in the morning. In other areas the German attacks were small. Brit fighters are now equipped with cannons. You can pick up the fire at twice the distance you've seen before.The grenades -2-