VIRTUAL EVACUATION.
ITALIANS LEAVE METEMMA.
BRITISH SUCCESS IN KENYA.
(Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.)
LONDON, November 24
The virtual evacuation of Metemmato Avhieh the Italians retired from Gallabat, is recorded in a Cairo communique, which states that as a result of continued aggressive action by our patrols and artillery, Metemma has noAV “to all intents and purposes’’ been evacuated by the Italians, whose patrols venture into the' area from the surrounding heights only at night. So much for the Italian claims that Gallabat remains in their hands.
In ’Kenya, a numerically .superior enemy force was driven off Avith casualties by one of our mechanised patrols Avhieh it tried to intercept. There is no change in the situation on the other fronts.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 38, 25 November 1940, Page 5
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