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AT ITALIAN BASES IN ABYSSINIA RESUMPTION OF BRITISH RAIDS. SUDANESE ATTACK FRONTIER POST. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) CAIRO, August 28. An R.A.F. Middle East headquarters communique states: “Long-range Blenheims resumed their attacks on Italian military objectives in Abyssinia and bombed a motor yard and barracks at Harar and a motor transport compound at Dossie, where direct hits were scored on buildings and motor transports and two fires were started. ■•These were the first large-scale raids on Abyssinia since the Addis Ababa military aerodrome was bombed on August 18.” A communique states that a mechanised British patrol of Sudanese troops successfully raided the Italian frontier post of Adardeb on August 26 and left it aflame, after inflicting many casualties. Haifa was bombed again yesterday at noon. Negligible damage was done. There were a few civilian casualties, none fatal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1940, Page 6
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