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BRITISH SEIZE KEREN & HARAR

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ingly brilliant tactics of the British General.

General Wavell did an astonishing thing.

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R. A. F. Harry

Italians

South Africans Bring

Down Two Fighters

March 28, 1941.

Matsuoka's Conference

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and South African- warplanes continuing to harry the Italians In East Africa.

Pact was confirmed."

This applied, he said, to the east as wall is the west. Anyone cuter- ing the war must be regarded an an RAF, and South Afflean bombers jenemy of the "great allied Powers." had captured this place, one of which severely attacked the Addis Ababa- Questioned by foreign journallats, was entirely Indian, southwards to Djibuti Railway ngain yesterday, anys the spokesinan added: ""It is diMcult the Sudan. Their task was to under-an R.A.F. communique, causing heavy to separate diplomatic from military. take operations from Kaasula on the damage to the track, rolling stockcaffales To-day's talk covered the Eritrean border from where the and bridges. attack on Keren really begao,

Fow commanders have ever risked such an operation with a distance to traverse in betwen of more than 1.000 miles over desert country.

Oldest Italian Colony The Headquarters of Mussolini'a oldest Colony is in British hands with the fall of Keren. The British forces, found this mountain fortress one of the toughest obstacles in the whole campaign against East Africa. It was the last barrier to the key base of 75 miles

Asmara, the Eritrean car cast end of

scope of the whole war against Italian Envoy LONDON, Mar. *27 (Reuter). Enemy positions in the hills around According to the Home wireless, Mr Keren were again heavily and fre-Matsuoka received the Italian Am- quently bombed.

bassador In Berlin to-day. They had South African nighters shot down a long and cordial conversation, it is two Fint fighters in this area.

stated.

RAF. fighters machine-gunned und Britain." badly damaged enemy motor transport near Gondar.

Socialist Editor Shot By Nazis

NEWS has been ·received of the

Planes, Ships, Tanks To Britain

FROM PAGE ONE

execution by the Nazis of the well- known Polish Socialist leader, Mieczy-Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the alaw Niedziałkowski.

the railway to the Musan, & valuable Eritrean port.

has been the only vital Italian position to make any stand against the awitt hammerlike blows of the British Imperial

forces in

In Africa. For weeks the armies of the Sudan prepared, waiting on the last stretch of the Eritrean plata with an ap- parently insurmountable abstacle before them. A ridge of solid rock 1,000 feet high confronted them. The ridge whose sheer precipices offered magnificent defence positions iA crowned by a series of arrow head His political activities date back peaks. Miltary experts recognised to the Great War, when he led the Keren as one of the most naturally Polish workers against the German Impregnable fortresses of the war. occupation of central Poland.

Formidable Ordnance CAIRO, Mar. 27 (Neuter).—Italy's most formidable ordnance guarded every summit at Keren; machinegun nests abounded and strong points were cunningly arranged.

to-

A milllary spokesman sald night that one-third of the forces in Mussolini's East African empire consisting of some 60-70,000 troops were estimated to be de- fending Keren. Their defeat might well lead to the general crumbling of the remainder of the forces at the disposal of the Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Abyssinia.

The fall of Keren, added .the would be a tremendous blow to Itallan prestige and morale. It would be possible to defend equal- ly formidable peaks every five miles. between Keren and Addis Ababa but this was unlikely since Keren had been Italy's, showplace. Hopes were now running high in Cairo that Mussolini's baltered armies would be unable to hold out until the rains.

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yards for which $200,000,000 hins Niedziałkowski, who was 40, was been provided. There are numerous formerly editor of the "Robotnik" recent reports that British war craft and Pollsh representative on the are nearing the Atlantic const in Socialist International.

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