DEVELOPING WELL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 7

DEVELOPING WELL

Triple Pressure In Eritrea ANOTHER MOUNTAIN NEAR KEREN CAPTURED (British Official Wireless auU Press Assu.i Received February 13, 7 p.m. LONDUX. bebruary 12. \ communique issued by General Headquarters m Cano states: "In Libya there is nothing of importance to report In Eritrea our forces operating from the north have occupied E Ghena (30 miles south of the border), capturing prisoners and equipment, and their advance is continuing. Ihe operations about Keren are developing well, while our column operating tarther south have penetrated still farther into hostile territory. So tar 80 guns have been captured or destroyed on this front. On the other fronts there is no change in the situation. In addition to El Ghena, where 200 prisoners were taken, the British forces in Eritrea have captured two Italian posts and another mountain. , , Mechanized units seized Mai Mefales, an Italian post 00 miles south-west of Asmara. The Italians lied in this direction after the abandonment of Barentu. A speedy British mobile force has already captured a large number of Haban lorries on the road between Barentu and Mai Mefales. Nothing has been heard for some days of the Italian column which retreated from Umm Hagar and took to the bush m order to escape its pursuers. "The Abyssinians will deal with them, remarked a military' spokesman at Cairo. Indians are operating near Keren on a mountain position 4000 feet up after the capture of the first mountain repotted yesterday. Nearly all the Italian positions on this front have been taken by infantry crawling up the mountain sides through thickbushes in face of machine-gun fire from trenches on the height above. . . . A Nairobi communique states that bouth African advance troops occupied Todenyang, a fishing village, and Namaiaputh, an Italian outpost, both at the northern end of Lake Rudolph, southern Abyssinia.