AFRICAN FRONTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 7

AFRICAN FRONTS

BRITISH AIRCRAFT ACIIVE RAID ON TOBRUK HARBOUR o FIRES FOLLOW EXPLOSIONS (British OfTicial Wireless' (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) RUGBY, Sept. 24. A Royal Air Force communique issued in Cairo on Tuesday stated: “ On Sunday our bombers attacked enemy aircraft on the Menastir landing ground All the bombs fell in the target area. Yesterday a second attack was delivered, and three explosions were seen among the aircraft, followed by fires. “ Two raids were made on Tobruk Harbour yesterday. In the first bombs burst among buildings and on the jetty. During the second attack bombs were observed to fall on buildings and very close to ships moored alongside the jetty. “ Zula, in Eritrea, was attacked on the night of September 21 There was a direct hit on buildings, and a fire broke out immediately. Four other fires visible from a distance of 20 miles were started in the centre of a camp. Yesterday a successful attack made on technical buildings and the aerodrome at Mai Abaga resulted in direct hits on buildings and aircraft on the ground, two fighters being definitely destroyed. “Aircraft of the South African Air Force raided Sciasciamanna, Central Abyssinia, on September 22. An enemy bomber on the ground was destroyed.’’ Call to Moslems “If the Italians’ march towards Alexandria means anything, it is a call on Moslems of the world to resume crusades after seven centuries,” said Mullah Sahib of Bhutan, in a sermon to a huge congregation at Bagh, in the Tirah district. Germany and Italy were enemies of Islam and he ordered the Afridis to do what they could to helo the Government.

Mullah Sahib is widely respected in the Tirah district, an independent tribal territory on the north-west frontier.