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Ready And Waiting

Jelamuted Usat $ German air rodds aguarist Great Britain and Bri tish shipping the enemy 18 Josing amcraft at faster vale than be enri truet them This rate of destrue- tion has been maintained for some clays past and yesterday's figure of 188 machates is the highest ever re- Great Britain is retaining uded Jay Supremincy in aerial fighting recounting for three to fou German

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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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As evening approaches, the sky becomes overcast with heavy slate-grey clouds Bke English summer, and the eastward horizon to- wards Abyssinta, which gives us our weather, is one constant flicker of Hghtning

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

The headquarters from which

RUNNING COMMENTARY

„THIS WAY FROM THE

BEL 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

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victory over the British Fleet."

AN AIRMANS LETTER

So a forer which ventured on dạn Braih – Army. CHAIT ibem

That

The position when the * Det active Aube -whic

Italians launched a dawn utinch Just) a big advance would almost cer tainly sooner or later find itself lingua franca almost through the befute the rains with two brigader, and their Bashing sufles pre. The THIR meluded rivalry And bogged and cut off.

enl L very different atmosphere tanka avjad *! more important- now that at the Italian gereisen were supported by aircraft, I am writing is located in a cir

20 miles HOWDY, where the cular native but of the type altas address they own coloured known as a takul beehive vil troops only through an interpretes lages of takuls are senttered all over the landscape.

Sezer Dat

Warthog With Beans

There is Little doubt among Bri- tors that though the Itabans out- numbered the defenders by Bearer

Flying Ocer Anthony Gray 20 than 10 for one, they would have' bren repelled if Kassals had been of Worcester, hero of the aerial It is not so hard to learn what is sufficient. strategie Importance 10 Its walls as well as the rool

Bolog on at Kassala, the Mudan hold are made of straw, and the con- frontier own captured by an Italian cal thatch rises to a topknot like "b" attack the hat Garbo wore in "Ninot. chka."

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JACOPOLITYÉN

If

The offer in charge decided that | evacuation was the best course

battle of July 4, when his flight

of Ave Gladiators fought and shot down nine Italian Fiat Ċr. And here comes the unazing part 42s in the Western Desert, has vival of the story, which would seem to| bev show that with a few inore successes been killed in a flying accident. the earth floor between the jega streaming back in the Bitish lines ake this the Italians would be played

He was returning from the front of trestle tables, on which lie nsitive the Halian optire

out Though they dropped hundreds From thes rolls of

seerns of fombs in the course of the day, line with his fight in thick cloud. He typewriter, a couple of

evident that the Haltans are extre- there was not a single air casually left the formation and dived through mats, and half a dozen enri

urly anxious about o British coure among the defender.

the cloud to discover their position, board Ales of telegrams, orders terattack

All the might of tanks, machine- and dispatches,

They reduced the garrison strike guns, cavalry and artillery claimed Unfortunately the mist stretched Round the tall lamps after my after the capture, one officer only Ave Sudanese casusities, though right down to the ground level and

some what mysteriously a exploiting

estimate very conserva live nightfall gathers a huni of in-

that the Trips were being reened the Italian losses at 500.

to pull the aircraft out of the dive weets that drop in your lap or to repel a British attack an Addis phrase which suggests

in time and he crashed. Thus ended plop on your shoulder like con- Altın”—

the short but glorious war career of a tinuous shrapnel fire and which that trouble may be spreading to the The claims of the Germans grow

typical Royal Air Force pilot whose squat brown toads hunt over the very heart of Abyssinia

increased the garrison heavily not that of Abdul, a cual-black Sud-spirit lives on in a letter written to more exaggerated us then raids cut-

floor with darting tongues

a bus reached 10,000

unese from the Nutan mountains, tance.

th respect they are dchading then own people, but

prisoner "Pinprick" Pushes

escaped from whom I saw few hours after his his mother on his return from his use else Theis Goverment IN

Kassala noticed the Britons tearing escape from capture following the first and highly successful aerial Outside, alim mimosa trees Of up track to prevent a surprise. He bottle

combat. The position of bring responsible to

which resemble nu nie, asid beast of all to truth as its

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

The following is on extract from JBL their he punctuated his smiling tale, the ! Słows is quite different African ash, ure dotted as in doing exuelly the

it

A most frequent was shap of the his letter: with the British Government

Mide parkland.

snap Then we are getting our rations angers-each

signifying an body is responsible to Parliament

"I wonder if your psychle gift told are a- regularly from the rear, though the enemy killed.

The

That

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I made exaggerated claims as a res sult of met n bottles the matter would

be vestigated on the Boor of the

nema,

FLOVAN

2 Ike

الحسد

who

They have

For dinner there was a gazelle.

Abdul's Sleepy Guard

This

Pul Flying Officer Worcester was unable

conservative estimate whs

Their upper branches. flutter with long-legged storks officers prefer to shoot their meals. And he continued snopping his you what was happening between 8 or prosperous ugreta, their Lunch to-day was an admirable war- fingers with machine-gun rapidity and 6.13 this evening as it has about House of Commons and the truth plumage as unbelievably white thog with beans.

for preity nearly a quarter of an other great days in my life. For to- day, one of the greatest ambitióna I hour. would be brought Lu light. That Parliament does

as packets on a Christmas tree. the mut question

have not yel ventured to try the ero- Abdul escaped when an askari was of my life has been fulfilled. Beneath this busy shade are codile which the second-in-command detalled to take him to the river for official communiques of its Govern-

"I was involved in an air battle A wash. He fell asleep doing so, ment is proof positive of the fact that camouflaged by daytime the bagged yesterday in a nearby river, they are true. Moreover,

the th

แย 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. 11 seems that Providence went out of lines by the new popular trick of His way to fill my cup of joy, for it thorities responsible do not take un-pinprick" campaign against the has lengthened from 17 to 25 feet..

doffing all his garments but his supported evidence of the destruce tive proot.

Italian garrison of Kassala down That 15 why there is n

loincloth and posing as a local cul- was the type of engagement, which avery fighter pilot dreams about and Alvator going out to the fields. cunstant revision upwards of the the now cut railway to Port

On the other hand the Italians, as

longs for but seldom gets in these Josses inflicted as more and more

Sudan.

He was not the only newcomer at days Aghter v. fighter in a dog-fight as they entered Kassala, fell British headquarters. вст evidence comes to hand.

Who are the men who are ravenously on every local store waging this war? Well-brown grain or any other food. They are tallen lines, who has displayed such himself.

a little less dusky deserter from the spread all over the sky-each man for and aquiline, or black and broad. now living on the meat of cimbras detestation

black and white storks, which even nosed, they are the Arab

The British press believes that the threatened German blitzkrieg is neur.

Already, in successive waves daily, hundreds of enemy airplanes are

or

Italians Short Of Food

Another was

of his former

the Sudanese ranks.

taking part in ralds. The more that Negro troopers of the Sudan Dr. the natives do not regard as clean that he has now been recruited into five of our fghters into action against

fence Force.

food,

·

masters "About 6 o'clock this evening I led nine Italian fighters over their own participate the greater is the per-

And there must be many like him aerodrome, The whole thing only For General Farucel's troops do not centage of the losses they sustain. There is nothing that these raids are

Many of them did not wear a venture more then a few hundred in the Kassalu garrison, for he told lasted about six minutes, although it We shot. the Italians seemed like half an hour, And how on mobilisation accomplishing that gives any indica- stitch of clothing before enlist yards outside their defences.

rounded up every coloured man down the whole nine and I had the tion of paving the way for an invament, and few of them knew one inside Abyssinia, which had to buy found in the town of Gondar, no luck to account for four of them. Our sion of Great Britain. Whatever

grain heavily from the Sudan before only Abyssinian but visiting Sud- losses are being inflicted on the Royal end of a car from the other.

the

war, supplies are none too plen-

anese, giving arms to men some of chops put up a wonderful show and

we had no losses. Navy are insignificant.

To-day, under a handful of Briush tiful. Merchant

whom had never held them before. 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, manning machine-guni, and the battle for it which they are Bombs And Pamphlets Patrol? The atmosphere was just the

ready repel any attempted landing working a crackling field radio, still discussing here? by enemy forces. What Germany 13 They are extremely proud of their It is a settlement

That reluctant morale is very dif- the same, and to add to the drama of a few hundred timing 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 stiiing round our mess camp serial power. Her attacks for some

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

"Fall down in the exclaimed petulantly: British officers, hand-picked from and the homes of the few British on airdromes and air factories,

onsdals-In brick or stones-a Euro- back? Why, that, is just what the brought in. The poor fellow was deathly white and had obviously well as London, though with what

We measure of success. la not known. curtain of fire across the Channel and pean quarter about the size of a enemy seem to be doing!"

And they were falling back indeed signed himself to anything. What she has falled to demonstrate

establishing what he believes is his small English hamlet.

Sudanese gave him a drink, some cigarettes, East of it riso the brown basalt before the concentrated nir supremacy, is any superiority in serial warfare.

the enemy will As a fighting machine Germany's air attempt invasion by troop-transports crags of the Jebel Kassola and, the fire into which the Italian white and some food which he wolfed, poor 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,

isolated

behind.. from the plain advantage in encountering the British, supremacy, he envisages will only thrust up

For the exclamation marks-

moment Italian sorties are am dead tired, daty, and un- exist in his own Imagination, for like plump even where numerical superiority provalls. When fighting against odds there is no indication that it is being thrust up so sheerly that they have confined to occasional air raids, shaven, but otherwise in great spirits. fly high on these, and favourite I do hope this gets to you soon, know- The Royal Air Force seems to rise to

won. Aby sca passage of troops never been climbed to the summiturks seems to be the behive villages ing how you walt for, it all the lime, the height of the occasion. The best must reckon with the Royal Navy, estimate of all in appraisal. of the. which will not be deterred from its River Gash which, dry in winter, of takuls, from which the Duce's as any success of mine means so

task no matter what the nature of the flows in the rainy season so fiercely gallant airmen send women and chil- much to you. You know how

have waited all my life for something barrage laid down across the Channel, that it practically cuts Kassala off dren screaming into the bush,

The Germans are heading for their

the from

They have raided once with pam-like this, and now It has happened. most tragic discovery, that is tragic Sudan.

rallway and the

the west of the.

phlets which not a soul there could I can hardly, believe it. I am most for them, if they believe that their

That is why since the Gash is un- read, once with Arable pamphlets grateful for the luck and opportunity

that has been given me." air bombardments are crushing the bridged. it was planned before the protesting that the Italians do Flying Officer,, Worcester was, 23 soul of the British people. "We are

It was only trouble should start.

The letter was somewhat less con-years of age, commissioned in The Germans, if their propaganda ready and walling for Hitler" the war to evacuato Kassala as soon as wish to make war on the Sudan, is to be believed, are working on the British people have said for months assumption that the morale of the past. That is their spirit of rolu the initial plartling successes of our vincing, since it was preceded by a January, 1938, and trained as à fighter British people resembles that of the lon. In the lexicon of the Mother-armoured units that prompted the shower of bombs, which though-very pilot in England. He was an only nations of Europe they have trampled land there is no such word as "fall leaving of a tiny Sudanese garrison badly aimed, caused, the first two son, his mother being a widow well

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

trend of the aerial warfare is found

In the daily losses Inflicted on the Fenemy and sustained by the defen- ders. Even Germany's Bir resources can only be relied upon for a certain ilme to stand losses of three machines for every British airplane destroyed,

West of it runs the bed of the

there.

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