STILL NO SIGN OF SUPPORT

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 80, 28 December 1940, Page 9

STILL NO SIGN OF SUPPORT

Italians In Bardia ACTIVITY IN SOUTH LIBYA (By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received December 27, 7 p.m.) LONDON, December 26. _ The situation round Bardia is unchanged and the British positions are still roughly eight miles from the town except at some points where our lines have advanced tor a tew hundred yards. The Cairo correspondent ot "Ine Times” says the enemy has not attempted to relieve or support the garrison. The only outside sign oi niterest in the fate of the beleaguered force is the increased aerial activity by dive-bombers which, operating from 70 miles behind Bardia. swoop down out of the sun against the Empire troops lying unprotected on the open desert round Solium. No German planes have appeared and no Italian warship has arrived to help the garrison.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 26. A Cairo headquarters communique states that on the Sudan frontier a British fighting patrol inflicted a number of casualties on the enemy east of Kassala, returning with one priso and some equipment There is important to report on the other An Italian communique reports lively artillery duels round Bardia and says that an attack against an Italian position in the desert was repulsed, ibe Italians, it adds, heavily bombed an cnemv advance base and also enemy motorized units m southern Liby. . IThe Italian report on southern Libya presumably refers to an advance bv a Free French force from the Chad Srea in Central Africa. Shortly after the opening of the Western Desert olfenshe, General de Gaulle announced that the French bad reoccupied the Chad frontier zone which was demilitarized under the Frtmeo-Italian armistice.]