SMASHING ITALY’S EMPIRE
AN IMPORTANT DAY SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS’ GOOD WORK ißr Tel,gr«ph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Feb. 25, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feo. 24. To-day was a most important day in smashing Italy’s East African Empire. The capture of Kubkub (Lritrea) opens the hack door to Keren, while the rapture of Gebib and Margherita smashes Italy’s west wail in Somaliland, opening the way for an advance along the coast to Brava, whereon advanced forces •are already marching, and also for drive through Juba to Barbera. Brava is an important port and road-centre to the main town before Mogadishu Bardera unites roads dominating the main inland communications. South African captors of Margherita experienced 10 days’ gruelling fighting. They occupied Kismayu aerodrome, six miles from Gobuin, and then advanced eastward. Two hundred Italian colonial troops, armed with machine-guns, ambushed the South Africans, who replied with mortars, cleared out the ambushers and then pushed on through almost impenetrable bush. . South Africans occupied Gobuin and then began a four-days’ battle for Jumbo.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 5
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