DEEP ADVANCE MADE
LONDON, February 4. British troops are now between 40 and 50 miles across the Sudanese border with Abyssinia. Though the Italians have not yet met any major defeats, this advance has enabled the British to establish direct communication with the Abyssinians, which means that they can be reinforced at will. It is stated in Cairo that the occupation of Barentu following the fall of Agordgt means that the first line of organized resistance in Eritrea is now completely broken. Most of the Italians escaped from Barentu by a “bolthole” under cover of darkness and they are now in full retreat along a narrow, winding mule track, which joins the main Addis Ababa-Asmara road some 40 miles to the south of Asmara.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 10
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