Night fighters of the R.A.F. swept over German aerodromes in northern France last night, the Air Ministry announced, "Several enemy aircraft were destroyed or damaged and one of our fighters is missing" the Ministry said, A strong force of British bombers heavily attacked Cologne and the ports of Boulogne, Ostend and Brest, the Air Ministry said, Small scale attacks were made on objectives in the Ruhr area, it was said, [United Press.
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The Italian last stand was said to be prepared at Golre along the dried up river of Anseba between Keren and a key pass which the British seized Saturday, Heavy RAF. bombing forced Italians to withdraw toward the Anseba river where their communication lines were shorter, it was said, It was reported that between 300 and 400 miles of Italian Somaliland were now at the mercy of the British since it became known that three days before surrender of Mogadiscio the Italian Commander-in-Chief, the Governor and all troops which has not already been dispersed, fled without attempting to establish defence positions, Cairo reports also said the RAF. heavily bombed the Fort of Burye and machine-gunned the Italian position while the South African Alr Force machine-gunned the aerodrome at Asmara.
British occupied Iscia-Baidoa and Bulo Burti in Italian Somaliland said a communique issued at Nairobi, "Large stocks of arms, petrol foodstuffs and stores of all type: were captured in those places. the communique said.
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