English Translation

On December 9th in the morning our trupes have already taken contact with the enemy in various places of the front from Sidi Brrani to the desert. At the first powerful operation the Italian. Strolls were overrun southward by Sidi Barrani. Soo Italians were captured here, a lot of war material exploited, a commanding general killed and his successor captured in office. Yesterday another attack on a second important and stronger ital, position closer to the coast was undertaken, whereby again a large number of prisoners were muffled and material was captured. Other brit. Uninits have reached the coast between Sidi Barrani and Bugbuk /?/ and have targeted further prey on transport vehicles and prisoners. It would be opportune to pre-empt the scope of the offensive and which will be its outcome. However, it can be noted that the first phase of the fighting was successful. The fleet and the air force proceed in close cooperation with the land forces. The plotting forces bombed various coastal positions of the Italians and the Luftwaffe played an important role, especially in the bombing of the landing sites of Sidi Barrani and Maktila /?/. About the air operations some specific details are already known. Our combat aircraft carried out such a heavy attack on the Beng si airfield and on aircraft sheds and plugs on the ground on some advanced ital. Airfields were hit. Even at night, strong attacks were made on the advanced enemy air bases. The next day, our fighter planes, among which some hurricane squadrons were particularly prominent, took some deep attacks on enemy bridges and transport columns that they took under MG fire, causing them heavy losses, without a doubt we will soon receive more news. -- Report of the Ministry of Aviation: Last night the attacks of the British Air Force were directed against an aircraft factory in Bremen, the docks in Boulogne and the submarine base Lorient. An enemy fighter was shot down during these attacks. A British fighter plane is missing. About England in the last night no flying activity, except some reconnaissance flights of the enemy air force near the south coast of England, Yesterday afternoon an enemy fighter plane was shot down over the North Sea. South coast is reported that during the day there were still large fires from the other side of the canal, which were probably caused during the attacks of last night by the prit. Luftwaffe. In the week that ended with the first December, England lost 9 ships with a tonnage of 4l.36o t. The Allies lost three ships this week, the Neutrals l. The losses of this week amount to 52,229 tonnes. In the report of the Marine Ministry, in which these losses are announced, it says - 3 -