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(Received February 5, 12.30 a.m.) CAIRO, February 4. The occupation of Barentu, following the fall of Agordat means the first Italian line of organized resistance in Eritrea now is completely broken. Barentu was surrounded on three sides, but most of the Italians escaped by a “bolthole” under cover of darkness. They are now in full retreat south-eastward along a narrow, winding mule track which joins the main Addis AbabaAsmara road some 40 miles south of Asmara.
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Southland Times, Issue 24352, 5 February 1941, Page 5
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