London, Jan. 12.
More than 90 free French warships are participating in "On the Sudan and Kenya fron operations, and the free French tiers, vigorous action of our patrols have now 80 merchantmen sail 4s continuing."—United Press, ing the seas, 30 of which are Ballan Losses manned by purely* French Cairo, Jan, 12. crews, stated Vice-Admiral British forces have advanced 290 Muselir, Commander-in-Chief miles since the start of their Western of. the "Free French Navy, Desert offensive almost two months broadcasting last night to ago, the General Headquarters com-French sailors. "For every ship munique stated yesterday. destroyed we have armed three allan losses "have amounted te more ships," he added—Reuter: nearly 80,000 killed, wounded and taken prisoner, the communique said, "The British completely destroyed Yeh jard and a small force went to Turin five italian divisions and three} and scored direct hits on the Royal and a small force went to Pun Arsenal, causing number of explos-Blackshirt Brigades, one Italian General was killed and eight were our fires and a heavy explosion captured."
Cecurred in another target nearby.
The communique said the 60,000 two Brit-Italian losses included 3,500 offers. {sh planes are missing, but the crew The following war material of one is known to be safe~-Reuter. said to have tanks; 689. guns 4,000,000 rounds of ammunition; more than 600 machine-guns; more than 700 light machine-guns and 11,000,000 rounds of small arms and machinegun_ammunition, Lorries so far counted more than 1,700, but a considerable proportion of them are un service: able, addition a large quantity of military stores was captured United Press,
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