ITALIANS IN AFRICA.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18676, 27 April 1926, Page 13

ITALIANS IN AFRICA.

SOMALILAND OPERATIONS. (BT CASUS—*BBSS ASSOCIATION— COrTMGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AXD H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ) LONDON, April 25. Italian operations against tribesmen of Cyrenaica and Italian Somaliland were attended' by successful reanlts, the Italian casualties being few and the rebels' heavy. Two columns operating in Cyrenaica alter five hoars' in territory iouth of Jebel Elakhdar reached Abid, Where they routed the rebels after a bayonet charge. The rebels later, remobilised and were reinforced, but were again routed. Six colonial troops were killid and 88 were wounded. The robels had ISO killod. Italian progress in Northern Italian Somaliland, in the Nogal territory, led to the submission of the Omatmahmud tribe; The operations were carried out; with naval support. It is semiofficially stated that the Italian losses were insignificant, and those of the to occupy, the whole Nogal territory as fWiaa the frontiers of Abyssinia and the object of abdicating the anarehy which is to be rampant ftronghout the country.