WAR WITH ITALY.
(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. IU.IO a.m.) RUGBY,-Sept. 27. R.A.F. reports from Cairo state that enemy fighters flew over Malta on Wednesday and were engaged by R.A.F. fighters. As a result one enemy aircraft was shot (lown, the pilot being killed. Another was probably shclt down and a third enemy fighter is believed to have been severely damaged by antiaircraft fire.
An Italian communique states that British planes attacked Italian troops. Italian planes bombed' British troops on the Sudan-Abyssinian frontier, also at Atbara
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 258, 28 September 1940, Page 8
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