Cairo, July 5.
General Gazzeru, supreme commander of the' remaining Italian forces in Abyssinia, is sending envoys to arrange for the surrender of all Italian forces operating in the Provinces of Galla and Sidamo, it is officially announced.
With this latest capitulation, it is stated, Italian resistance throughout ' Mussolini's East African Empire is virtually at an end.
"Except for the Italian garri~ son at Gendar, which is now hemmed in by Empire and Patriot: forces, and a small column which is dispersed into the'"wild country south-west of Assab, Italian' resistance in Eritrea, Abyssinia and Italian Somaliland has now been brought to a successful close," says a special British G.H.Q. communique—Reuter. sumably entered Syria from Iraq the frontier near Kemal, This further exploit "of Indian troops follows their brilliant work in the Damascus region where, by a series of daring sorties, they helped the entry of the Allies into Syria's
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