Keren; British Take New Positions London, Mar. 27. IMBE Royal Air Force in the Middle East has been reinforced by the arrival of some of the most up-to-date American aircraft that Britain has yet received. They are Tomahawk fighters—fast single-seater machines heavily armed with cannon.
The battle for Keren, Italian stronghold in Eritrea, is still going no grimly, according to the latest reports reaching London from East Africa. British troops, who have been fighting in intense heat for 16 days, have driven back fresh Italian counterattacks and captured new positions covering the town. A correspondent who has just visited the battlefield reports that the rocky slopes around Keren were strewn with enemy dead.—Reuter.
Cairo, Mar. 27.
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