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Ready And Waiting

It muster that in German air raich agutust firent Britain and Bri- ush shipping the enemy is losing Pieruft at a faster rate than he can construct ther This rate of destruc- tion has been maintained for some of days past and yesterday's figure I machines is the highest ever re- corded.

Great Britain is retaining her supremacy in serial #ghting in Germun necanting for three to four machines for every one she luses.

targela German bombing of land

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de where Goebbels tells of de- cimating blows, can and few evid- ences to support this Gesmun form

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The clans of the Germans grow more exaggerated us their ralds con finde, and in this respect they are deluding their own people, but no one else Their Government the position of being responsible to ne mie, and least of all to truth as its record shows It is quite

different with the British Government. Thal body is responsible to Parliament. If it made exaggerated claims un u re- sult of aerial buttles the matter would

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September 17, 1940.

WAR-IN

A THOUSAND MILES

OF

MUD

By RONALD MATTHEWS

On The Abyssinian Frontier.

BLUE in the distance, across the green tree-dotted plain that changes to a crumb- ling red on the horizon, rise the surly mountains of Abyssinia.

And here, from the headquarters of a British unit in the "front line" I am able to give the first eye-witness account of the siege operations which are being conducted to-day against Italy's East African Empire.

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At present, the campaign must remain the tempo of patient blockade enlivened by an occasional raid.

For almost the entire thousand miles of the Sudan-Abyssinian border have been turned into the likeness of a football ground after a heavy match on a pouring day.

The regular seasonal rains began three weeks ago, and though they are not continuous they are so persistent that large-scale operations requiring any kind of transport would be the wildest gamble till mid-September.

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An evening approaches, the sky becomes overcast with heavy slate-grey clouds like English Aummer, and the castward horizon to- wards Abyssinia, which gives us our weather, is one constant flicker of lightning.

When it comes-and it has come every other day this week-the downpour is torrential and the earth turns to a clogging mud which is im- passable not only for cars but even for camels,

seni 請

RUNNING COMMENTARY

THIS WAY FROM THE

BRITISH FLEET

You run to stoppa da fight; Full speed with alla da might Da English give chase

But you winna da race; Da Victry she's ours, alla right.

Mussolini has congratulated the Italian Navy on its "magnificent

victory over the British Fleet."

173 Thant 145

AN AIRMAN'S‡ LETTER

So a force which ventured on the British Army, choff them

the position when the see A big advance would almost cer- then natives Arable--whuch a Italians launched a dawn attock Just)? tainly sooner or later find itself in france almost throughout the before the rains with two brigades, Sudan and their flashing amilles pre- The troops included cavalry and bogged and cut off.

different atmosphere tanks very

and-for more important- The headquarters from which from that at the Italian garrison a were supported by aireraft, I am writing is located in a cir, scure or 30 miles away, where the cular native hut of the type allans address their own coloured known as takul--bee-hive vil. troops only through an interpreter. lagos of takuls are scattered alt Warthog With Beans over the landscape.

There is little doubt among Bri tons that though the Italians out- numbered the defenders by nearer

Flying Officer Anthony Gray 20 than 10 to one, they would have been repeiled if Kassale had been of Worcester, hero of the acria! It is not so hard to learn what is suficient strategie ngorlance le Its Walls as well as the roof

battle of July 4, when his flight Roing on at Kassula, the

Sudani hold. are made of straw, and the cont frontier town captured by on Halian

of five Gladiators fought and cal thatch rises to a topknot like "blitz" attack.

shot down nine Italian Fiat Cr. the hat Garbo wore in "Ninot-

And here comes the amazing part 428 in the Western Desert, has chka."

of escaped prisoners, civil of the story, which would seem been killed in a flying accident, and military, who Have been show that with a few

more succcESCS streaming back to the British lines like this the Italians would be pinyed

Italia capture since the

out. Though they dropped hundreds

The source of informatents. អ trickle

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The officer in charge decided that evncuation was the best cuurse.

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Plump white hens wander over the earth floor between the legs

He was returning from the front of trestle tables, on which He a

seria of bombs in the course of the day, line with his fight in thick cloud. He typewriter, a couple of rolls of

dozen card. evident that the italians are extre- there was not a single air casualty left the formation and dived through half a maps, and

the cloud to discover their position. All the might of tanks, muchine- board files of telegrams, orders axious about a British coun- ansong the defender. and dispatches,

They reduced the garrison strik- guns, cavalry and artillery claimed lamps after ingly after the capture, one ofleer only five Sudanese casunilles, though right down to the ground level and

mysteriously a

estimate very conservative nightfall gathers a hum of in- explaining sects that drop in your lap or to repel a British attack on Add the Italian losses at 600.

Round the

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ter-utluck.

sure what that the troops were being recalled

Abdul's Sleepy Guard

This conservative csilmate

puts

Unfortunately the mist stretched

Flying Offer Worcester was unable to pull the aircraft out of the dive in time and he crashed, Thus ended. the short but glorious war career of a

plop on your shoulder like con- Ababa phrase which suggests tinuous shrapnel fire and which thut trouble may be spreading to the squat brown toads hunt over the very heart of Abyssinia. They have

now increased the garrison heavily not that of Abdul, a coat-black Suypical Royal Air Force pilot whose floor with darting tongues.

xactly

same ob

For dinner there was a gazelle.

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Wan

coinbat.

successful perial

t it has reached 10,000.

from the Nuba

mountains spirit lives on in a letter written to One prisoner "Pinprick" Pushes

who escaped from whom i saw a few hours after his his mother on his return from his

and highly capture following the Orst Kassalu noticed the Britons tearing escape from Outside, slim mimosa trees or up truck to prevent a surprise. He battle. neams, which

resemble the exclaimed:

Of the many gestures with which "Why, the Italians are

the

The following is an extract from as in

their he punctuated his smiling tale, the African ash, are dotterl

most frequent was a snap of the his letter:-- Then we are getting Our rations fingers—each stup signifying an parkland,

are a regularly from the rear, though the enemy killed. Their upper branches

"I wonder if your psychic gift told flutter with long-legged storks officers prefer to shoot their meals. And be continued snapping his "ou what was happening between ix investigated on.

or prosperous egrets, their Lunch to-day was on admirable war- fingers with machine-gun rapidity and 6.15 this evening as it has about

for House of Commons and the truth plumage as unbelievably. white thos with bur

pretty nearly a quarter of another great days in my life. For to- brought

I hour.

day, one of the greatest ambitions 10 light. That Parliament dues i question Le as packets on a Christmas tree.

have not yet ventured to try the cro Abdul esenped when an askarl was of my life has been fulfilled. official communiques of its Govern-

Beneath this busy shade are codle which the second-in-command detailed to take him to the river far!

"I was involved in an air battle a wash. He fell asleep doing so, camouflaged by daytime the bagged yesterday in a nearby river. forces which are carrying out a Since being killed this crocodile and Abdul made his way through the with the enemy for the first time. it lines by the now popular trick of it seems that Providence went out of doffing all his garments but his is way to all my cup of joy, for "pinprick" campaign against the has lengthened from 17 to 25 feel.. Italian garrison of Kassala down Italians Short Of Food

Ininelath and posing as a

local

cul was the type of engagement which overy fighter pilot dreams about and the now

to Port cut railway

tivator going out to the delds. On the other hand the Italians, as Sudan.

Another was days fighter v. Aghter in a dog-Oght soon as they entered Kassala, fell. He was not the only newcomer at longs for hut seldom gets in these

British headquarters, Who are the men who are ravenously on every local store of

Tittle The British press believes that the

himself. threatened German blitzkrieg is near.

waging this war? Well-brown grain or any other food. They are less dusky deserter from the spread all over the sky-each man for

Hines, who bas displayed suchį Already, in succcasive waves daily, and aquiline, or black and broad- now living on the meat of embras detestation of his former masters hundreds of enemy airplanes are nosed, they are the Arab or black and white storks, which even taking part in raids. The more that Negro troopers of the Sudan De. the natives do not regard as clean that he has now been recruited into five of our fighters into action against

ment is proof positive of the fact that

they are true. Moreover, the au- thorities responsible du not take un- supported evidence of the destruc- tive proof. That is why there is a constant revision upwards of the losses inflicted as more and mbre evidence comes to hand.

food.

the Sudanese ranks.

end of a car from the other. the war, supplies are none too plen- only Abyssinian but visiting Sud- chaps put up a wonderful show and

anese, giving arms to men some of we had no losses. whom had never held them before.

"About 8 o'clock this evening I led aine Italian fighters over their own participate the greater is the per-

And there must be many like him aerodrome. The whole thing only centage of the losses they sustain.

fence Force.

For General Farucel's troops do not There is nothing that these raids aro Many of them did not wear a venture more than a few hundred in the Kussala garrison, for he told lasted about six minutes, although it

And rounded

how 011 mobilisation the Italians seemed like half an hour. We shot. accomplishing that gives any indica- stitch of clothing before enlist- yards outside their defences.

up every coloured man down the whole nine and I had the tion of paying the way for an inva- ment, and few of them knew one inside Abyssinia, which had to buy found in the town of Gendar, not luck to account for four of thems. Our sion of Great Britain. Whatever

grain heavily from the Sudan before losses are being inflicted on the Royal Navy are insignißcant. Merchant To-day, under a handful of British tifus. shipping is not suffering unduly. officers, they are driving armoured What is Kassala about anyway,

"Do you remember this film Dawn British land forces remain intact, vehicles, menning machine-guns, and the battle for it which they are Bambs And Pamphlets Patrol? The atmosphere was just the ready to repel any attempted landing working a crackling fleld radio. still discussing here? by enemy forces. What Germany 18 They are extremely proud of their It is a settlement of a few hundred That reluctant morale is very dif- the same, and to add to the drama aiming at is the destruction of British

crash helmets, and not only wear takuls, with Government buildings, ferent from that of the Sudanese at we were sliting round our mess camp aerial power. Her attacks for some

them all day long, but sleep in them. a post office, Greeks merchants stores Kassala, who, when ordered to fall this evening an Italian pilot, who had weeks past have been concentrated

Fall been shot down in the morning, was British officers, hand-picked from and the homes of the few British back, exclaimed petulantly: on airdromes and àir factories, well as Landon, though with what

officials in brick or stones-a Euro- back? Why, that is just what the brought in. The poor fellow was deathly white and had obviously We measure of success is not known. curtain of fire across the Channel and pean quarter about the size of a 'cnemy seem to be doing!"

And they were falling back indeed resigned himself to anything. What she has falled to demonstrate establishing what he believes is his small English hamlet. is any superiority in serial warfare. air supremacy,

will the enemy

East of it rise the brown basalt before the concentrated Sudanese gave him a drink, some cigarettes, As a fighting machine Germany's alr altempt invasion by troop transports crags of the Jebel Kassala and the fire into which the Italian white and some food which he wolfed, pour force has been shown to be at a dis-reinforced by parachutists The air jebel Moktam, two mountains which troops were driving them on from chap.

behind. advantage in encountering the British, supremacy he envisages will only thrust up isolated from the plain behor the moment Italian sorties are "I am dead tired, dirty, and un- oven where numerical superiority exist in his own imagination, for like plump exclamation

confined to occasional air raids. shaven, but otherwise in great spirits. prevails.

They

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the Royal Air Force seems to rise to

When fighting against odds there is no indication that it is being thrust up so sheerly that they have y high on these, and favourite I do hope this reis to you soon, know- won. "Any" sea passage of troops never been elimbed to the summit marks seem to be the behive villages ing how you wait for it all the time, the height of the occasion. The best must reckon with the Royal Navy, West of it runs the bed of the

You know I estimate of all in appraisal of the which will not be deterred from its River Gash which, dry in winter, of inkuls, from which the Duce's as any success of mine means so trend of the aerial warfare is found tank no matter what the nature of the Bows in the rainy season, so fiercely gallant, airmen sind women and chil-much to yell my lie for something in the daily losses inflicted on the barrage laid down across the Channel, that it practically cuts Kassala off dren screaming into the bushe this, and now It has happened. enemy and sustained by the defen-

The Germans are heading for their from the rallway and ders. Even Germany's air' resources mest tragle discovery, that is tragic

Sudan, can only be relied upon for a certain

the west of

of the

Pam-

have waited They have raided once with phicts which not a soul there could I can hardly believe it. I am moet

Like

for them, if they believe that their That is why since the Gash is une read, once with Arable pamphlets grateful for the luck and opportunity time to stand losses of three machines als bombardments are crushing the bridged It was planned before the protesting that the Italians do not that has been worcester Was 28 | for every British airplane destroyed. soul of the British people. "We are

Flying Officer Worcester The Germans if their propaganda ready and waiting for Hitler the war to evacuate Kassala as soon as wish to make war on the Sudan.

trouble should start. It was only The latter, was somewhat less con-years of age, commissioned in is to be believed, are working on the British people have said for months the intial startling successes of our vincing, since it was preceded: by January, 1033; and trained on a fighter assumption that the morale of the past. That is thoir spirit of nublu- British people resembles that of the tion. In the foxicon of the Mother armoured units that prompted the shower of bombs, which though very pilot in England He was in only nations of Europe they have trampled Land there is no such word as "fall leaving of a tiny, Sudanese gorrison badly almed, caused the first two son, his mother being a widow, well

Sudanaso casualller on this front known by many in Hongkong. underfoot. No doubt, after laying in the crisis that she faces,

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