EASTERN FRONT
SOUTH AFRICANS’ SUCCESS.
DIRECT HITS REGISTERED.
MOTOR TRANSPORT ATTACKED
(United Press Association .—Copyright.)
(Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.)
LONDON, July 26
A Cairo communique states that valuable reconnaissance flights have been carried out by aircraft of the South African Air Force in the Moyalc district, and a motor transport was attacked on the Moyaie-Buna road, direct hits being registered on a number of lorries. %
A communique issued in Nairobi states that aeroplanes carrying out further reconnaissances located a small concentration of Italian troops with motor-vehicles, and bombed them, destroying one vehicle. British troops from the Gold Coast and Nigeria arrived in East Africa some days ago.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 5
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