Cairo, May 26, General Headquarters claimed that operations against the Iraqi "rebels" concentrated about six miles up the river Tigris from Basrah, near the Gulf of Persia, "were successfully carried out "by our troops in ce-operation with the Royal Navy and the RAF." The communique seid that in Basrah itself, "the situation is quiet."
General Headquarters revealed that Sudanese troops took prisoner 570 Italians, 5,000 colonials and 3,000 other native troops after three days of fierce fighting in the trackless mountain area north of Addis Ababa, The communique said that a large column of Italians had escaped from Debra Markos at the beginning of April and since that time had attempted to evade capture by moving about in the mountains, Seven hundred civilians were also in the party.—United Press,
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