Cairo, Mar. 29.
RITISH forces dri ing toward Addis Ababa, the Djibouti railway and Asmara, yesterday were said to be closing a huge ring entrapping approximately 150,000 Ttalian soldiers and colonists in Abyssinia, The garrison from Harrar officially was reported in frantic retreat toward Diredawa, 37 miles north along the railway. Italians also were attempting to evacuate civilians from Addis Ababa, it was reported.
Meanwhile, it was revealed that General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander: in-Chief of the British Forces in the Middle East, had witnessed most of the battle which resulted in the capture of Keren.
Reports {rom Nairobi said a com= munique there announced that "north of Lake Rudolf, the South African 'Air Force bomba the administrative building and entrenchments, cop. train 50 miles' cast of Addis Ababa Was machine-gunned, The Engineer and fireman jumped from the locomotive and $0 or 60 soldiers also jumped when the train ed reached a stop," the communique sald—United Press,
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