RAIDS IN SOMALILAND.
BY SOUTH AFRICAN PLANES.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Sept. 30.
A Nairobi \ communique issued on Monday night'says that units of t'he South African Air Force on Saturday carried out their third successful raid on objectives in Italian Somaliland. Direct hits were scored on adminis trative buildings by high-explosive and incendiary bombs, and some buildings were burned out. Other squadrons carried out reconnaissances from which there is nothing to report. All our planes returned safely. The South African Air Force again raided Birika.il (Italian Somaliland), where bombs hit the administrative buildings, some of which were gutted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 8
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