'A Berlin communique reports that the offensive collapsed against Italian and German defensive artillery ce. operating with the German alr force and according to early reports G0 British tanks were destroyed. Ger~ man planes. successfully participated the Nghting yesterday, according 9 the announcement, 'A Rome communique reporting that British "offensive" had been pre-Pared for several days says the repulsed everywhere with considerable losses, Rome also states that Tobruk har-our works and fortifeations and Metsa Matriin supply bases and fort fications were hammered frum the alr.
In southwest Abyssinia the Itallang have withdrawn from the village of Hace, 65 miles east of Moji and 200 tulles southwest of Addis Ababa. The town is near the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border.—Reuter,
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