THE WESTERN DESERT
NO CHANGE IN SITUATION [British Official Wireless] (Received 7th December, 2.10 p.m.) RUGBY, 6th December. A Cairo communique states that ' three is no change in the situation in the western desert, “'in the Gallabat ! area in the Sudan our fighting patrols attacked and drove off an enemy machine-gun post in a position east of Gallabat. The enemy sustained casualties leaving one dead and a quantity of arms and equipment in our hands. Our patrols were also active in the Kassala sector while there has also been considerable patrol activity on i the Kenya front.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 7 December 1940, Page 6
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