Effected; Abyssinians Assisting Khartoum, Feb. 23.
FPREE French troops have arrived in Britrea and joined the British drive on Keren, it was announced here yesterday.
The troops disembarked on the Red Sea coast, the first landing effected on Eritrea from the sea since the British advance began on January 15.
French troops travelled across equatorial Africa in American trucks, bri igitig their own' rifles, -machine-guns and ammunition, trench mortars and other equipment, and without losing a single "vehicle, said authoritative sources here.
The troops needed only artillery when they arrived, which the British supplied.
They covered over 1,500 miles, from Fort Lamy near Lake Chad. The unit Was composed of strapping six foot Senegalese with French oficers—United Press,
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