ARDUOUS TASK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 5

ARDUOUS TASK

INVASION OF ABYSSINIA SOUTH AFRICAN AND NATIVE PATRIOTS. FRONTIER CROSSED EAST OF LAKE RUDOLPH. LONDON. Rebruary 3. Though faced with the task of overcoming all sorts of obstacles, the army of Abyssinian patriots is i advancing deeper into Ethiopia. The greatest single advance without sleep was 12 miles. At night the Apyssinians have to face bitter cold and during the day they have I to march under the merciless African sun. British Imperia! troops advancing from Kenya are faced with an cquidly hazardous task They have now rench*led tin* country which lias been their t objective for six months. > With machine-guns ready t>> deal ; with any Italian native irregulars. they | have crossed the frontier cast of Lake I Rudolph. Il :- a region rarelv visited by v. kite men. Tin* Italian-: have been i taken completely by nirpri e by th.. : advance and the Smith .African tr.«ij,-: are now nearer Addis Ababa than to i their base at Nairobi. C\IRO RFPOK’T

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, enemy forces retreating towards Goni dar. in Abyssinia, continues, as a re- ! suit of which the Italians have been i compelled In abandon and destroy quantities of materials ;nd stores of all kinds. South African forces have occupied two Italian frontier posts 10 miles inside the enemy border on the Dukana front, in Italian Somaliland vigorous activity by cur patrols continues, extending deepening our penetration across the Italian frontier.'' TABLES WILL BL TURNED ACCORDING TO ANSALDO. ADMISSION OF ' PAINFUL" DEVELOPMENTS. BUGBY. February 2. < Not only at ho,me but at their tight-1 iii!l front:, the Italians are beginning, I to understand the meaning of the I blows struck by Britain in the Middle! East. In his late:’ broadcast from Borne to the Italian armed forces, the commentator. Signor Arnaldo, ha ad- 1 milted the serious nature <,f the Brit-' • h ohensive He tried to hearten hi hearers by premising that the table would be turned later "it is in relation to tin- perspective.' to which they point that we must vu-w the military event in ‘lie Midilcria■ nean and Greece. he said “We will then undef.tand that everything that has happened m North Africa and Greece - painful a- it •.*. P-r u- ha< but a relative value when viewed ■ proportion !<> the final l utcome. There j n.> doubt that m this cmning period I we will have every importunity of ■ vrr- | turning the rticcr'm of Wave'll t.> ouH own honour ant! advantage' There is no cl< too that Amaldol and many hi . hearet will have the: ■ay ■ i la;.,' v pot < f overturning Gen-1 iil Wav ell . o , but ' ■ ■ : <■ '■ i < ve* y f !’■ si ;r; do -w ib, ■ | m .