Cairo, June 30.
British patrol and mechanized units have continued to harass Italian concentrations near the Eritrean border with marked success, according to a Khartum dispatch quoted in an of cial statement issued by General Headquarters here today.
"In the Kassada area, in dificult country fringing the horde two off our light armoured fighting' vehicles encountered two groups of enemy! cavalry 1,200 strong, advancing. to~' wards them, The vehicles opened fire with machine-guns. Panic broke out among the enemy, they scattered in all directions, taking cover in adjacent hills and leaving 50 casualties. behind, "In the same area, small detach ments and units repeatedly entered Eritrean territory, encountering enemy patrols and inflicting easualties without sustaining any.
"On June 21, one of our fighting patrols routed 'a battalion of native infantry in this area, inflicting severe casualties and demolishing several machine-gun nosts."—Reuter,
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