IN EAST AFRICA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 5

IN EAST AFRICA

OPERATIONS PROCEEDING TO PLAN MANY MORE PRISONERS gathered in. INC RE A SING PR ESSUR E ON KEREN. — Operations on land in East Africa. the 8.8. C. reports, are proceeding according to plan. Pressure around the important town of Keren, in Eritrea, is increasing. T!w total number of prisoners take’m Eritrea now exceeds 3.500 and man,’, more are coming in The route-: of tht enemy retreat are littered with wai material, destroyed or abandoned, In Abyssinia, Hie advance along the Gondar road is progressing. .Aircraft of the South .African Air Force shot down two enemy fighters when on putrid near .Asmara, The Eritrean town of Keren, which is now invested by British kind force., was raided by British plane.,. Direct hi!? were ;-c -red on the railway station and military buddii Hits were a!.- . made on a large 'ransj-ort pari-;, and <>n an Italian i ort ;n Eritrea. .All tile British planes returned BUNDING SANDSTORMS IL'FFJi 'I 'LT ('<»N| )ITI< >NS IN FIGHTING AREA I.fJNDt IN. F.-br-.i.ir-v 7 With the Cairo official communique on ihr fall of Benghazi it i« announced that fighting in the area is being conducted nt the moment under extreme difficulties, blinding sandstorm; impeding troop movements.