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BRITISH SEIZE KEREN & HARAR Mussolini Forfeits

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troops, admirably supported by the RAF,, have again defeated a numeri- cally superior enemy force and occu- pled Keren,

[by the R.A.F. and the South African

Air Force during the past 12 days.

material awaiting harvest Massawa,

Winge Over Karen

Tast 12 days.

night

March 28, 1941.

A Colony

FROM PAGE ONE

The next British advance is ex- pected to follow this valley route, the

CAIRO, Mar. 27 (Reuter)—Enemy positions in the hills around Keren had been heavily and persistently railway with Massawa, on the ́Red. bombed, “nearly 40 tons of bombs

Sea. being dropped during the last four Abyssinia: Horar is in our hands." days and more than 120 tons in the

Tons of Bombs Dropped CAIRO, Mør. 37 · (Reuter).—An

Our alreraft have been over the B.AF communique states that 120 target most days from morning till drive being aimed at the occupation of the whole of northern Eritrea- tons of bombs were dropped on Keren alter aircraft of the South Atri-| politically and economically tho' most

can Air Force units have also been important part of the country. netive in the area and yesterday, not

Military quarters warn, however, many hours before the town fell, two that the speed of the British advance of them engaged and destroyed two in this sector is likely to be slower

fighters. The Air Force's contribution to the than the British columns operating in successful operations against Keren Abyssinin, owing to the exceptional- is remarkable at the town itself is y difcult terrain surrounded by tiers of mountains be- Alhough it is impossible to estimate tween 6,000 and 7,000 feet high and the strength of the Italian forces in it was amongst these that our birthe Keren-Asmara-Massawn region, craft had to seek out and destroy it is not likely to exceed 50,000. enemy positions.

Enemy Fought Well (DY "NEUTER'B” MILITARY

CONAESPONDENT)

-- LONDON, Mar. 27.—Italy's African Empire is now in the hands of General Sir Archibald Wavell and, with the fall of Keren, he is free to fight another enemy.

they

The Italians fought at Kerer as had never fought before in the history of their race. They fought superbly and now they have been benten only because of the outstand- ingly

brilliant tactics of the British General.

General Wavell did an astonishing thing. After his capture of Sial Barrant on the Egyptian-Libyan

frontier, he diverted two forces which had captured this place, one of which wna entirely Indian, southwards to the Suting. Their taxit was to under- take operations from Kassala on the Eritrean border from where the attuck on Keren really began.

Few 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's

ap-

| 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 way the last barrier to the key base of Asmara the Eritrean capital, 75 miles along the rollway to the east end of Massawa, a valuable Eritrean

port. Keren has been the only vital Italian position to make any stand against the swift hammerlike blows of British Imperial forces in Africa

For weeks the armies of the Sudan prepared, waiting on the last stretch of the Eritrean plain wit

with an parently Insurmountable obstacle before them. A ridge of solid rock 1,000 feet high confronted them. The ridge whose sheer precipices offered is GRUcent

defence positions by a series of arrow head peaks. Military experts recognised Keren as one of the most naturally Impregnable fortresses of the war.

Formidable Ordnance CAIRO, Mar. 27 (Reuter).-Italy's most formidable ordnance guarded every summit at Keren; machinegun nests abounded and strong polnts were runningly arranged.

A military spokesman sakl to- night that one-third of the forces In Mussolini's East African empire

Consisting

of somo G0-70,000 estimated to be de- troops were fending Keren. Their defeat might well lead to the general crumbling of the remainder of the forces at the disposal of Une Duke of Aosia, Viceroy of Abyssinia.

The fall of Keren, added the spokesman, would be a tremendoils blow to Italian 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 battered armies would be unable to hold out until the rains.

Little More Resistance LONDON, Mar. 27 (Reuter). Asana, and its chief seaport, Mas- zawa, are not likely to put up any serious resistance to the British Army.

The Duke of Aosta has been con- centrating all his available strength In the defence of two points-Addis Ababa in Abyssinia and Keren in Eritrea Asmara and Massawa will probably meet the same fate os Keren in a matter of days whereas the

taken of Keren has capture wecks.

The capture of Harar is very im- portant as it threatens the last link between Addis Ababa and the sea at Djibuti, the subjection of which need not be hurried and be left largely

can to the

the Abyssinian patriots.

The end of

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