TRANSJORDAN EMIR
SAID TO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED BY HIS SON. QUARREL OVER IRAQ. LONDON. May 9. According to the Beirut correspondent of the British United Press the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania was seriously injured by a shot from a gun fired by his son as the result of a quarrel over Iraq. STEADY HEADWAY THE ADVANCE ON AMBA ALAGI. PATROL ACTIVITY IN LIBYA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, May 11. Steady progress in clearing up operations in Abyssinia is the main feature of a Middle East war communique, issued at Cairo, which states: “In the Tobruk and Solium areas our patrols again have been active. Casualties have been inflicted on the enemy and a number of prisoners taken. "In Abyssinia. Indian troops, advancing from the north, captured two further important features in the Amba Alagi sector, taking 150 prisoners. Meanwhile our column advancing from the south, has again made important headway, inflicting serious casualties on the Italian defenders. Further south operations are continuing satisfactorily in every sector. “In the Habbania and Basra areas the situation remains calm.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1941, Page 5
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