WAR IN AFRICA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 6

WAR IN AFRICA

ITALIANS IN RETREAT IN ERITREA & ABYSSINIA. SUCCESSFUL BRITISH AIR ’ OPERATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY. March 28. While a Cairo communique describes a continued advance, after the fall of Keren, towards Asmara, today’s communique issued in Nairobi shows that the Italians are being pursued from Harar. It states: "After enemy guns east of Harar had been silenced, the white flag was displayed at 3.30 p.rh. on March 25 and our troops occupied the town. The pursuit of the enemy continues in the direction of Diredawa.” An R.A.F. Middle East communique says: “During the final stages culminating in the capture of Keren, the R.A.F. gave vigorous support to the Army by bombing enemy positions and batteries on the mountains round the town. "The Addis Ababa-Jibuti railway was again heavily attacked yesterday by our bombers. Fifty miles to the east of Addis Ababa a troop train was machine-gunned and damaged. The South African Air Force successfully bombed an enemy camp, administrative buildings and entrenchments north of Lake Rudolph. R.A.F. bombers made a successful raid on the aerodrome at Calato, in the Island of Rhodes, yesterday, when buildings on the aerodrome and a petrol dump were set on fire, causing a smoke cloud that could be seen a hundred miles away. "At least one aircraft was destroyed on the .ground. All our planes returned safely from the above operations.”