London, Mar, 8.
British forces and Abyssinian patriots are continuing their 12- sided thrust towards Addis Ababa with increasing success, They are living sometimes on iron rations and at others on game shot by the wayside, or else on captured Italian supplies, Apart from the feats of the South African troops in Italian Somaliland, the centres of greatest interest at present are Keren, where the Italian defenders are in increasing danger of being cut off as Imperial forces together with Free French units sweep southward from behind the Italian Defences, and in Central Abyssinia, where Abyssinian forces with Australian and British officers are already beyond Mankusa, eight miles east of Burye.
On the latter front the Italians have left behind large quantities of food and stores. British booty on this front on Wednesday alone included over twenty vehicles, four guns and a number of machine-guns.
After withdrawing from Burye the Italians spent a distinctly restless night on Tuesday. Patriots harassed their night camp continually and on Wednesday morning British forces again attacked the retreating Italians despite a covering fre from their artillery: and the assistance one lone aircraft still remaining from the ruins of the Italian air force in "Military circles recalled that the Germans, prior to the disastrous bombardment of Rotterdam last spring, threatened a terrific bombardment of the city for the purpose of softening the resistance of the Dutch.—United Press.
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