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8h Division IV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for personal broadcasting and light duty Use of service! Destroy 1221EC0 under your own responsibility! Test.- No. / § 353 c RStGB/. B e r i c h t e of 4 December 1940. Z.a.d 1.8/+2.40. SENDER LONDON /English/: The attacks of the British Air Force were directed last night against the railway connections in the Rhineland. Cairo reported new blows to the Italiens yesterday. An important oil refinery and the main railway station were bombed in Naples. In addition, the attacks against the flight stations of Čatania and Augusto were directed at Sicily and against bases in East Africa. All British machines returned. Today more air activity is reported from Cairo. In Casalla, fortified enemy positions and a car park of motori- sed transport aircraft were bombed. Enemy troop and ransport gatherings were taken under MG fire. At the border of Eirträa, a fortified Italian military camp was fired into fire, over all fronts numerous exploration flights. All machines returned. Agency news from Albania: The Greeks have advanced far beyond Pogradetz. Near the village Mamulisch /?/ there are fierce fights. Here the Italian elite troops, the Bersaglieri, suffered heavy losses. Athens: the Greek. Troops are now in possession of all the important sterategically important points, which runs in a line from the sea south of Santi Quaranta to Lake Ochrida. The road from ? to Argy rocastro is shot at by the Greek artillery. The road that runs along the coast to Valona and the road that leads from Delvina to the road which connects Argyrocastro and Tepelini are also under artillery fire. Cairo: Apart from the two enemy machines that were shot down by the British Air Force on Monday over Albania, 2 more machines were shot off. In the Premetiaabs chnitt, an Italian RM 37 reconnaissance machine was shot down. Last night, the enemy air raids against London and central England were directed. The attacks were neither extensive nor long-lasting and all ended at about 10 p.m. A large band of enemy machines carried out a violent but relatively short attack on Birmingham. Several fires were caused, but none were serious, and all fires had been under control for as long as two hours after the attack. The losses were surprisingly small, but there were some deaths. The attacks on London were not very difficult. No major fires were caused in the London area. Neither in London nor in Birmingham have any important objects been damaged. -2 -