Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/9873: Telegram

The Consul at Tunis (Heisler) to the Secretary of State

Tunis, April 10, 1941—7 p.m.
[Received April 11—8 a.m.]

42. Reliably informed that three Italian destroyers have taken refuge at Sousse; that Tunisia is furnishing the Italian forces in Libya with ammunition and supplies and that Italian vessels are proceeding to Tripoli through Tunisian territorial waters.

Heisler