The Archive · 1940

Italian Post Stormed

Nairobi, June,20, "At dawn on Tuesday,~a raid was carried out against an Italian post at El Wak, on the Italian Somaliland frontier, by troops of the Kings African Rifles, supported by a Southern Rhodesian contingent of the Royal Air Fore communique issued here last night.

"although full details are not available considerable damage was done to the post. The enemy was obviously surprised and later counterattacked our troops, who, after completing their task, withdrew over the border.

"Our reported casualties are two African ranks, "On withdrawing, our troops were bombed by two Italian Caproni aircraft, but so far no damage whatsoever has been reported.

"On the rest of the front, all was quiet on Tuesday."—Reuter.

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