ITALIAN CLAIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 6

ITALIAN CLAIMS

LAND & AIR FIGHTING. , (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) | (Received This Day. 12.40 p.m ) | ROME. August 29. A communique states: “Italian air I formations bombed the Alexandria na- , val base and carried out long flights i over the Suez Canal, between Port ■ Said and Ismailia. bombing the Northern entrance to the Suez Canal and I also the ferry service at El Kantara. by which the railroad from Egypt to Palestine crosses the Canal. Bands of Italian native troops occupied the British Fort Polignac, in the region of Lake Rudolf. We bombed he railway station at Khasamghirbin. I in the Sudan and aerodromes at Majir i and Garassa. "British detachments attempted to raid Italian territory at the boundary between the Sudan and Eritrea. They encountered a detachment of Italian colonial troops, reinforced by askari police, and were driven back after bitter fighting. The British managed to carry away hundreds of wounded, but left behind about ten dead, in addition to several machine-guns and other weapons. Tire Italian losses were slight. “Another strong British attack against Gallabat was easily repulsed.”