DESERT CLASH
ITALIAN PARTY SUFFERS LOSSES ' NO 'CASUALTIES IN BRITISH ATTACKING PATROL. MINOR OPERATIONS IN SUDAN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.12 a.m.) RUGBY, November 1. A Cairo communique issued today deals chiefly with operations in Egypt and the Sudan. During the night of October 30, one of our patrols in the Western Desert, in Egypt, encountered and inflicted casualties on a party of the enemy without loss. Active patrolling continues in the Sudan.
On October 29, in the Kassala sector, a British patrol attacked a small camel convoy, capturing one prisoner. In the Blue Nile sector, the enemy reconnaissance parties which were first successfully engaged on October 26, are continuing their withdrawal. There is nothing to report in Kenya or Palestin.e
British bombers again attacked objectives on the Libyan coast, including Tobruk, the 8.8. C. reports. Four enemy planes were shot down.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 5
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