Cairo, Jan. 21. Italian withdrawal from the strategic Kassala front in eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sud lan continued yesterday, the Gen~ eral Headquarters communique sai British troops continued to advance stecessfully on several fronts, the communique declared.
Royal Air Force bombers on Sunday raided Berat, Italian stronghold central Albania, and Catani: strategic Sicilian seaport, dropping high explosives and incendiary bombs on military concentrations and motor transports, the R.A.F. communique said.
Several fires were started, the communique said, Other fires' were feaused at Assab and Hargeisa, which fse were bombed, the communique added.
Reports from London said military leaders estimated Italian casualties at approximately 2.000 Killad and Wounded during the past six months of fighting in the Kassala area, with British losses less than one-tenth of hat, "The recapture of Kassala was authoritatively described at London, as "major defeat for the Talians,"—United Press, Axis Chiefs Anxious Over Mediterranean London, Jan. 21.
The secret meeting yesterday between Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini today was believed here to have been devoted primarily to. the twofold or single {ask of perfecting Axis plans to drive Britain out of the Mediterranean and to elaborating German help to Italy.
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