DESERT ENCOUNTER.
ENEMY PATROLS ATTACKED. I SUCCESS BY THE BRITISH. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 1. The Cairo communique issued to-day deals chiefly with operations in Egypt and the .Sudan: “During the night of October 30-31 one of our patrols in the Western Desert in Egypt encountered and inflicted casualties on a party of the enemy without loss to themselves. Active patrolling continues in the Sudan. On October 29 in the Kassala sector a British patrol destroyed the contents of a small camel convoy, capturing one prisoner. “In the Blue Nile sector enemy reconnaissance parties who were first successfully engaged on October 26 are continuing their withdrawal. There is nothing'to report from Kenya and Palestine.”—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 19, 2 November 1940, Page 5
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