IN AFRICA
> R.A.F. RAIDS. (United Press Association Per-Electric Telegraph’Copyright). I CAIRO, Sep. 14. A R.A.F. communique stated: —The Boina Seaplane Base was attacked I during a series of raids on Eastern Libya. Bombs fell on the anchorage. A large fire broke out in a jetty. The fires- were visible for thirty miles; After bombing-a transport eoncentrrition near Didimar, South African.-units’, raided Abyssinian aerodromes', starting (fires. We aisu raided Somaliland and' Eritrea, scoring a direct hit on a jetty at Asiab. We also attacked aerodromes at Gura, and Asmara, and' started fifes at Massowa:' ■ ITALIAN “FORCED LANDINGS. ISTANBUL, Sop. 14. Three Italian bombers made a forced landing at almost the same point on the Turkish coast this week. Ode sank. . ITALIAN PRISONERS. SIMLA, Sep. 1,4.. . Sixty-five Italian officers and 415 i ankers have arrived at Bombay,/where over one thousand Italian prisoner?; ol war are interned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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