Cairo, May 26, General Headquarters claimed that operations against the Iragl "rebels" concentrated about six miles up the river Tigris from "Basra, near the Gulf of Persia, "were successfully carried out by "our troops in ce-operation with the Royal Navy and the RAR" The communique said that in Bagrah the situation Is. quiet?
'Headquarters revealed that' Sudanese troops took prisoner 1,000 colonials and 3,000 troops after three days of ere fighting in the trackless mountain aren north of Addis 'Avaba, 'The communique said that a large column of Italians had escaped from Dobra Markos at the beginning of April' and since that time had tempted to evade capture by mov-Ing about in the mountains, Seven hundred. civilians were also in the party.—United Press,
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