In Heliopolis, Cairo an operator listing to the Italian Navy took a message indicating two large convoys assembling, one composed of supply ships at Taranto where several warships were based, in the other at Genoa, two large ships used before, as troopships. The Royal Navy's "Y" service now took on the task of tracking the convoys.

An ATS special operator serving near Leicester taking down German civil police messages took a signal ordering a public day ban from a big rail junction serving both ports. They issued such orders if an important person were to pass nearby, or to cover the passage of troops and ammunition trains or to rebut our claims of heavy damage to the railway. The war weary Italians gave our agents ample confirmation on the movements of the troop trains