DESERT BATTLE
ITALIAN CAVALRY ROUTED ON SUDAN—ERITREAN BORDER. BY BRITISH MECHANISED FORCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) CAIRO, June 30. It is announced in Khartoum that two British light armoured fighting vehicles routed two groups of enemy cavalry, totalling twelve hundred men, in actions on the Sudan-Eritrean border. The most important encounter occurred in difficult country fringing the Kassala area of the Sudan, where British mechanised forces are continually harassing the enemy. Here the British unit, advancing toward the cavalry, opened machine-gun fire. The cavalry broke in panic, scattering in all directions, taking cover in nearby hills and leaving fifty casualties on the ground.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 5
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108DESERT BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1940, Page 5
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