JIMMA CAMPAIGN
TOTAL ITALIAN LOSSES FIGHTING IN TRACKLESS TERRITORY. WILD AREA OF LAKES & MOUNTAINS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 10. For more than a month recently British and Italian forces in south-east Abyssinia were conducting a campaign the various phases of which extended over an area rather larger than England and in wild territory of lakes and mountains where roads are nonexistent and heavy rain turned the tracks into morasses and the streams into swift torrents. The Italians were trying to hold this area, the core* of which is Jimma, the second biggest agricultural colony in Abyssinia. The Battle of the Lakes came to an end on June 20 with the capture of Jimma. Now it is authoritatively stated that the Allied forces have captured 30,000 prisoners, more than 100 guns, some hundreds of lorries, and stores of equipment during this campaign.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1941, Page 5
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142JIMMA CAMPAIGN Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1941, Page 5
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