London, Aug. 20.
Not a single plane was ost when powerful formations of British. aire frett carried the war into Moly. Ger= many and occupied France an' Sun day night and early Monday morning. heeording 10 an Alr Ministry eom= unique.
For the third time within a_ week, RAR, heavy bombers on Sunday night' allaeked the Caproni aircraft Factory" at Milan andi the Plat works at Tu Other squadrons of the R.A, operating 160. miles further nort severely damaged aluminium works at Rheinfelden, on the German-Swiss frontier. ays the nows service of the Ale Ministry.
factory" near the Rhine was at-lacked for' 90 minutes. To reach it British planer had to ay ome 606] miles, One of the first salvos of heavy bombs onused a high chimney Somaliland is Evacuated By British Army London, Aug. 20.
British forces were completely evacuated from British Somaliland yesterday, taking with them their entire equipment except two guns, the War Office announced in a communique issued here last night.
In explaining the need for the evacuation, the War Office said the defence of Somaliland depended. on close" Franco-British cooperation, which was made impossible by the French capitulation. order not to weaken other more important. war" theatres, the War Office said, reinforcements were not sent to British Somaliland and the small British force was kept there inflict as heavy losses as possible fon the Ialians before their with drawal
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