The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-08
British Soil
by
Duce' S Men

Madrid Pepper Sees
Spoin Moking Wor
(BULLETTNS)
cairo, Egypt-Italian mechan-
= forces. led BY bombing planes
tanks. sIashed SO miles into
hot desert land Of British
maitland and captured three i'm
Ftanf bases, a British communi-
admitted tonight.
rhe famous British somaIilsnd
mel corps. now largely mechan-
=. inflicted severe casualties"
the advancing Italians. accord
to the communlque.
The base of Odweina, 50 miles
lde Somaliland, was occupied
ssday. as was the port of leila.
the gulf of Alden, where there
> no opposition
ROME = Italian columns have
Dssed the frontier of British So
Inland at several points. the high
nmand communique said today.
LONDON--Italy has concentraf-
strong forces on the Egyptian
Dntier of Libya, and there are
1ications n general advance ss
Eminent. British military circles
ID today.
DPANIARDs REUSED AGAIN
THE Falangist newspaper Arriba
I'd today at Madrid that Spain
Is physically on the verge of
title" against great Britain.
The Spanish press is government
6ntrolled.)
Arriba, in front page editorial.
clared Spain is a moral beiliger-
h." sharply attacked Great
Iritain, and asserted that the
.panish government has not the
<ght to suppress public and press
hostility to Britain.
Declaring Spain was "first
. neutral, then non-beiligerent
and now physically ON the
verge of battle. Arriba de-
nounced the present official
policy Of neutrality.
mo one can fail to consider
England as the most direct vio-
|ator of our destiny; we cannot
overlook how her armed forces
menace the integrity of our terri
tory and by what means her
economic hold has weakened and
divorced fraternal peoples from
bur interests" Arriba said.
ITALIANS ON MARCH
Fascism cautiously challenged
the might of the British empire
h Africa today in a long-range
campaign for a new Roman en-
hire around the Mediterranean
4 The armed forces of Premier
nenito Mussolini in Africa aimed
control of the Suez canal as
heir ultimate objective, but inn
nediate operations--so far pre-
~minary to an apparently inn
rfnent general offensive = were
inferred along the Libyan frontier
! Egypt. in North Kenya colony
fBritish) and in British Somaii-
AND. which has been invaded by
Ihree Italian columns.
sERBERA is BOMBED
sun-baked desert land, where
Me temperatures mount to 120
degrees: the British navy, which
vas reported steaming along the
Eeyptian coast, and British Afri-
EAR armies were the foes Of the
FASCIST fighters, but 90 far the
var has been fought most fur
Iously in the air.
Italian airplanes bombed Ber-
>era, chief port Of the British
Serritory. and attacked the inn
bortant port of Alden, across the
kulf. One British plane was shot
iown, the communique issued Al
Roms said.
ATTACK AT soLLUM
Fascist aerial forces, apparently
operating in advance of ground
kttacks. bombed the British camp
"a sollum, the railroad lines at
NE big naval base Of Alexandris
md also attacked Marsa Matruh.
Recording to the Rome commn-
&ique.
Furthermore, the Italians struck
4zain at the main British OH
5upply base at Haifs. In Palestine.
reporting that a Shell company
efinery had been destroyed and
Urge fires started
10 INVASION YET
On the European front the war
Dntinued in the air. but with nc
hange in regard to the threatened
ffensive against the British Isles.
German planes were reported by
be Maxi high command TO have
ombed British airfields in Wales,
be great Vickers-Armstrong air
zane factory at Chester and q
Munitions factory az Swansea
nile single German naval vessel
ns said ~ have nttrk Al no tim,