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Division IV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for personal broadcasting and Helldienst. Use of service! 123//40 Jn own responsibility to destroy! Test No. ( § 353 c RSTGB ). Reports of 5 December 1940. Lo n d o n - English. 1.8/92.4 The enemy attacks on Englanf would be small and short-lived during the last night. At midnight, all attacks were over. Articles of the leading journal: Petroleum Press Service: The scarcity in the Italian oil supply has several causes. The Italian peninsula has almost no oil deposits. and the British maritime rule prevents any supply from overseas. As far as imports by land are concerned, major technical difficulties still have to be overcome. The crude oil stocks that reach Jtalien must first be refined. Thus, the Italian oil refineries as well as the plants for the production of synthetic fuel and the fuel storage are constantly threatened by attacks by the British Air Force. They have already suffered severe damage. In addition, Jtalien is now waging a three-front war, in which it needs a lot of fuel and is therefore forced to attack the fuel vorhuttle accumulated in the past. Any successful attack by the British Air Force will reduce the existing reserves. Letters and newspapers from England to Egypt need only a little more than 3 weeks. The rapporteur of the Rimes reports from Cairo that there is great enthusiasm throughout Egypt about this acceleration, because it shows proof of the fact that the British fleet is increasingly ruling the Mediterranean. The former head of the American Admiralty, Admiral Sterling? said yesterday: What we have to do above all is to lower the danger of German submarines. We can do this by achicking all kinds of our war xhiffes, with our sailors on board, to England, to bring everything you need and demand there. We must openly support England with all the ships and aircraft we have at our disposal. US aid is getting bigger and bigger. However, it is far from being able to look at the situation in England, but on the other hand it is quite objective to see that the situation has improved very much. England has not been able to meet the German submarine weapon so strongly in recent months, as it had to maintain a strong motte in the Mediterranean. Now, after the blows inflicted on the Italian fleet, England can easily withdraw ships from the Mediterranean Sea. By the beginning of November, 3.635.ooo t brit. were sunk allied and new ship space. The German figures are absolute exaggerations. It has not been forgotten in England that Germany has always exaggerated the most in the previous war when its situation was worst. In the months of the year 1987, which were favourable to Germany's seafaring industry, the figures given by Germany for enemy losses were only 25% higher than the actual losses, while in the Mahre lgl8, the figures reported by Germany were l3o% higher than actual losses.