The Archive · 1940

Widespread Revolts In Abyssinia

Djibouti, June 20. Revolls against the Malians fare beginning in every prov ince in Abyssinia, it is re~ ported. The damage caused b3 Royal Air Force Talian bases in Abyssinia convinced the Ethiopians of Britain's superiority—Reuler. nder heavy bombing and shelling uring the withdrawal of the B.E.

It-Colonel James Dewar Russell, of the Highland Light Infantry, who effectively resisted an enemy tank atjek with anti-tank rifles after all his anti-lank guns had been put out of fiction, and withdrew what men he could; Major Rowland Lancaster Willott, of the Royal Engineers, who blew up ridge under fire and carried to Safely an old Belgian woman, who walked on {0 the bridge afer he had ighted. the fuse It-Colonel Sit Alexander Bevitle Gibbons Stanier, of the Welsh Guards, who held a front of 6,000 yards, with an exposed left flank, Boulogne from May 21 (Lil May 23—

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