ITALIANS SURPRISED
ATTACK IN SUDAN
BRITISH CAPTURE TOWN
TROOPS AND R.A.F.
COUNTER-ATTACK REPULSED
LONDON, November 7. A communique issued today from British headquarters in Cairo says that in the Sudan early yesterday morning a British column, supported by units of' the Royal Air Force, surprised and captured Gallabat, on the Abyssinian border, taking a number of prisoners. An enemy counter-attack was successfully repulsed, followed by two heavy bombing attacks. In the Kassala sector a British mobile force is continuing to maintain pressure on an enemy detachment. There is nothing to report in Egypt, Palestine, and Kenya.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1940, Page 7
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