FRONTIER ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1940, Page 5

FRONTIER ATTACK

ITALIAN POST CAPTURED IN ABYSSINIA BY BRITISH TROOPS FROM KENYA. COUNTER-ATTACK REPULSED. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. August 4. A Nairobi official message says: “Our troops captured a small post on the Abyssinian border at the north-east end of Lake Rudolf and repulsed coun-ter-attacks. The enemy’s known casualties were 37 killed. Our losses were slight. ITALIAN REPORT LOSS OF SUBMARINE ADMITTED. (Received This Day. 10.25 a.m.) ROME. August 4. A communique states: “In East Africa our squadrons bombed Erkowit and Fort Sudan and the airport on the summit of Haiya, where a large hangar was burned. A railroad branch at Haiyya was hit. In Kenya a concentration of auto units was bombed, south of Wajir. During the fighting at Dobel the enemy left 64 dead before retiring, including three officers. A standard of the Sixth Battalion of the King’s African -Rilles was captured. Port Zcila. in Somaliland was elTectively bombed. One of our planes has not returned. An enemy air raid on Port Derna. in East Africa, caused slight damage. One of our submarines has not returned to its base.”