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Division IV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for personal service- Broadcasting and Helldienst usage! Ub To destroy on your own responsibility! /§ 353e RSTGB/. Pp! Reports of November 29, 1940. 0h SENDER LONDON /English/: The British Navy Ministry announces that under the sight of units of the brit. Mediterranean fleet, naval aircraft attacked the port of Laki on Leros in the Dodecanese vnd Tripolis in Libya. Docks and various other objects were hit in Laki, and a ship, probably a warship, was attacked. Ín Tripolis the quays and a boat were hit severely. County fires broke out. 1 British plane is missing. The brit. Admiralty gives in a report details of the naval battle that took place on Wednesday in the western Mediterranean, and in the course of which an Italian battleship of the littori class, 3 cruisers and 2 destroyers were met. On the British side a lo.ooot cruiser was hit. Through this battle 4 ital were struck in 2 weeks. Battleships, 5 cruisers, 2 destroyers and 2 rescue ships out of combat. British Komnuniqué reports that on Wednesday the British naval forces were reported to the position of 2 itél. Seelachtships, which were accompanied by several cruisers and destroyers, about 75 miles northwest of Sardinia. The British units immediately changed course to set the enemy. 4 enemy destroyers were sighted at 1 2 pm. The advanced British units opened the fire, which was returned by the enemy, but with full steam under smoking winding with course to the north-east. At 12.45 p.m., two battleships, one of which belonged to the Littoria- the second of the Cavour class, were sighted, accompanied by mechrer cruisers, The British battle cruiser Renaun did everything possible to put the enemy ships to battle. However, the speed with which the enemy moved, made this impossible. At 1.lo a.m., the persecution was abandoned, as it was only a few miles away from the enemy's coast. Later reconnaissance flights revealed that the enemy had been subjected to considerable damage, he disappeared behind a smoke wall. A cruiser was shot on fire in the aft. It was observed how a destroyer was overturned and no longer made a trip. Another destroyer had a slight visual layer and lost speed. From the ship of the Are Royal, naval aircraft went up and attacked the enemy even further. It was observed that the air torpedo of a shortfish squadron met a Littoria-class battleship. Another band of shortfish machines attacked a punctual band of 3 cruisers with l5 cm guns. It is almost certain that the rearmost of the ships was hit by an air torpedo. It was hard to find a lo.ooot cruiser of the Bolzano class, also it was observed that the front cruiser left at speed. Furthermore, the British aircraft -2 -