Described as "highly successful" in a terse communique Bsued yesterday from Cairo, raids launched by the R.A.F. against Italian posts inflicted beany damage. Among the important objectives achieved were Tobruk, the Italian naval base in Libya, and communications between Sidi Barrani and Sollum, recently over-run by the Italians in their invasion of Egypt. Bardia was another target for British planes, as was @ camp near Capuzzo. It was also learned yesterday that British bombers had inflicted heavy damage on the Dodecanese Islands, Italy's most important naval base in the Eastern Mediterranean, n The White Cross of Lorraine, emblem of the free Frenchmen unde: General de Gaulle, is beginning to be seen in Hongkong, where a bureau has been established by a French architect.
Several Frenchmen have registered with the bureau as volunteers for the Army of Free France now being organized in England, and they will leave as soon as possible. A committee may be set up to raise funds to provide passages.—Reuter.
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