Cairo, Aug. 20.
Following the naval shelling of dumps in an area north of Fort Capuzzo on August 17, British patrols report seeing for some hours dense columns of smoke 100 feet high, according to a war communique on operations in the Western Desert.
Referring to Kenya, the communique declares that on Sunday, a few miles from Buna, a party of 30 Banda (native conscripts) fled after exchanging shots with a small part of the King's African Rifles.
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