Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister, Messages and Correspondence

A file of signals intelligence reports, messages, and correspondence issued by the Government Code and Cypher School and sent by the head ('C') of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This file includes the following reports on Southern Europe: that the 715th Division occupies the high ground south of Aprilia after the Allies withdraw, on February 14; that in view of the catastrophic shipping situation in the Aegean, German ships are to be transferred from the Adriatic, on February 4; Naval Headlines, covering a large Japanese submarine with a retractable aircraft hangar and catapult being en route to western France to rendezvous with a U-boat in the North Atlantic on February 13; from the Irish minister in Rome, a report of February 13 of recent singing in the streets of Rome by German soldiers confident of victory at the Anzio bridgehead; and that on February 12 the German governor had assured the Finnish minister to the Holy See that the Allies would be driven back into the sea and that another Dunkirk was imminent, but the Germans were less optimistic on February 13.