AFRICAN THEATRES
PERIOD OF INACTIVITY
EXCEPT IN THE WESTERN
DESERT.
ENEMY RECONNAISSANCE & PATROLLING.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received This Day. 11.52 a.m.) RUGBY. August 11
Today's Cairo communique states that in the Western Desert, patrolling and reconnaissance enemy activities continue.
In Somaliland, contact has not yet been established, on the main positions. The situation, at Bttrao and to’ the east is normal. There is nothing to report in Palestine, Kenya or the Sudan.
BRITISH AIM IN SOMALILAND OPERATIONS. DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY FORCES. (Received This Day, 12.20 a.m.) CAIRO. August 11. A general Headquarters statement on the position in British Somaliland says: “Our goal is the destruction of the enemy’s forces. It is not our object to defend every inch of soil, but rather to make the enemy use up precious supplies of food. petrol and ammunition, which he cannot replenish, in what is a strategically wasteful enterprise. i
“Any immediate successes of the enemy in the occupation of parts of the protectorate will be offset by the necessity of providing food for the population, which is entirely dependent upon Aden for mapy essential supplies.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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