IN SOMALILAND
ITALIAN PORT BOMBARDED BRITISH LIGHT FORCES ir^ipTCD y_. LONDON, Nov. 18. . " (Received Nov. 19, at 10 p.m.) The . Air"'. Ministry states: '* The R.A.F. bombed Elbasan, hitting military stores and starting a fire. It aiso raided Benghazi, Solium, Bardia, and Tobruk. A; raid on Gura heavily damaged and set fire to a building. Direct hits at Agordat set fire to railway sidings." An Admiralty-communique states that British Tight forces .bombarded and seriously; damaged oil tanks, anti-aircraft-defences and a landing pier at Dante, in Italian -Somaliland. ; An account" of a patrol action last month at Liboi, near the Italian Somaliland. frontier, was released tb-day and reveals the 'arrival of armoured cars from South Africa and their effective employment. Four of these successfully attacked a large enemy force, inflicting heavy casualties.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24460, 20 November 1940, Page 7
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