WAR IN AFRICA
ITALIAN POST CAPTURED IN SUDAN NUMBER OF PRISONERS TAKEN. SUCCESSES IN OTHER AREAS. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 7. A British column, supported by R.A.F. units surprised and captured the important post of Gallabat, taking a number of prisoners, according to an official Cairo communique dealing with operations in the Sudan. An enemy counter-attack, followed by two heavy bombing attacks, was repulsed in the Kassala sector. A British mobile force is continuing to maintain pressure on an enemy detachment in the Jebel Tendalai area. From the Egyptian, Palestine and Kenya areas there is nothing to report.
British and Indian troops took part in the capture of Gallabad near the Sudan border, which only took threequarters of an hour, the 8.8. C. reports. It is stated that during the fight seventeen of the Italians deserted.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1940, Page 6
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