British forces who in three weeks have cleared Italian Somalijand up to the river Shibeli and erossed into Abyssinia, are now in possession of an_area equal to the whole British isles, In' their hurricane advance they have occupied more than 100,000 square miles and accounted for 21,000 soldiers in dead or captured, ' of which many were Europeans, Apart from alr, there is at present no contact between the British forces Jand the retreating Italian columns.
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