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Division IV Strictly confidential! Only for the personal radio group Radio and light service To destroy m/17 on its own responsibility! /§ 353 c RStGB/. Test.- No. .d. B e r i c h t e of 3 December l940. 0n.1/8 SENDER LONDON /English/: The British Air Force again made a successful attack against the Albanian port of Valona. The main dock bridge and ship were hit. Explosions and brewers broke out. An ital. The CR 42 was shot down, the Italian aircraft rose to a counter-attack, but had no success. In the area of Argyrocastro another Italian fighter aircraft was fired. All British aircraft returned. Details have arrived about the activity of the British Air Force, which some time ago thwarted a desperate attempt by the Italians to hold Koritza. The Italians moved in great haste reinforcements to Koritzah and the Greeks asked the English to access it. It was by the British. Battleplanes lead the road from Pogradec to Koritza, taken under fire, A large trans port and troop column was occupied with bombs and MG fire. Further a bridge was completely smashed. Since the road was also blocked at another place, the Italian reinforcements could not move in any direction. The English lost 2 machines in this operation. Communiqué from Cairo: The British Artiellerie returned to work in the *ebier east of Gellabd. Nothing new can be reported about the other African fronts, In the fights that took place on Saturday night on the Aonntag in the area of Casalla, a British patrol managed to make a number of prisoners and destroy a truck. Italieher had ll dead. It was also a surprise- the attack on a group ital. Motorcyclists were taken, in which 3 Italians were caught and 7 motorcycles and a lot of equipment, among them some MGs and.Munition were captured. Report of the Ministry of Aviation: Last night the attacks of the brit were directed. air-weapon against ships off the North Sea coast. A full hit was achieved on a sight. Fires and explosions followed an attack on the shipyards on the Fröya Islands. Furthermore, the German submarine base Lorient was bombed. Yesterday at day a full hit on the stern of an enemy tros ship off the Norwegian coast was achieved. All British. Machines returned. The German attacks were especially directed against Bristol last night, the attacks began shortly after dark and lasted until shortly before midnight. Some fires broke out in residential and commercial buildings and public buildings. -2-