NORTHERN ERITREA
ADVANCE IN COASTAL AREA (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 10. The advance of British troops in the coastal are? of northern Eritrea, which was not hitherto mentioned as a theatre of operations, is announced in to-day’s Cairo communique, which reports the occupation of the small market town of Karora, which stands on the Sudan-Eritrea frontier some 40 miles from the Red Sea, and of Mersa Tachai, a small village on the Red Sea with an anchorage, some 13 miles down the coast from the Sudan frontier. The full text of the communique states: “In Libya the clearance of the areas up -o El Agheila is proceeding satisfactorily. Advancing from the north, our troops in Eritrea have occupied Mersa Tachai and Karora. Meanwhile pressure on the enemy positions about Keren is continued. In Abyssinia South Africa troops have advanced into southern Abyssinia in the Hobek area a distance of 50 miles inside Italian territory, capturing quantities of war material (Hobek lies to the east of Lake Steffani). In Italian Somaliland intense patrol activity continues." > '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24530, 12 February 1941, Page 7
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