AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 4 December 1940, Page 6

AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

Italian Air Raid ROME, December 2. A communique * issued to-night, declares that Italian bombers partly destroyed the French battleship “Lorraine,” during the raid on Alexandria on November 30. Two other ships were set on fire, and Customs depots' were destroyed. ITALIAN POSTS BOMBED. LONDON, December 2. An Italian communique says: Enemy ’planes bombed Kassala, Burao, Assab and Metemma. A number were killed or wounded. RAIDING BY ADEN .PLANES. AGAINST ITALIAN POSITIONS. (Received December 3, 8.10 p.m.L ADEN, December 2Planes from, Aden raided in Eritrea and Abyssinia fifty times during th e month of November, while Assab was raided thirty times, and one series of attacks against Assab lasted 36 hours All the British plane.';

operating during November returned, although they flew thousands of miles under difficult, conditions SEVERAL R.A.F. RAIDS (Received December 3, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, December 2. The News Service of the Air Ministry says:— “In the eastern desert, a large number of enemy aircraft aground at Benina were attacked, two Italian bombers being, destroyed and two others severely damaged. Enemy troops and motor transports on the Metemma-Gondar road, ten miles west of Wahni, in Italian East Africa, were machine-gunned and bombed by .R.A.F. planes. Four direct hits were registered on motor transport ,and heavy casualties were observed" as a result of machine-gunning. Further south, a successful raid was carried out at a camp at Mubba, where a number of fires resulted from direct hits on barracks. A camp at Nagila, containing several battalions of colonial troops and Black Shirts, was attacked, fires being started, and much damage done. There were no R.A.F. losses in these operations.”