The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-20
ITALIANS MUST
 QUIT OR SUFFER
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the Sudan Ethiopia frontier region, to prevent tribesmen taking merci- less reprisals against Italian norl- combatants owing to the brutality they suffered during the Italian oc- cupation of Ethiopia"
 The government also has been in touch with Gen. Archibald Wavell, commander in chief in the middle east, as regards the situation of Italian non -combatantS in view of the ever-increasing danger to them as the empire and Ethiopian forces press in and trtoesmen flock to the standards of their leaders for inoe. pendent action.
 Keren Is Hammered
 Cairo, March 20.-(UP - British forces, supported by intense Royal Air Force attacks, yesteroay mace steady progress against kelen, lGal- tan detense position 35 miles north of the Erltrean capital of Asmara, and indicted particularly heavy casualties" on the Italians, British midoAe east heaoquarters said to- day.
 RAF planes attacked the Keren- Asmara area and other formations blasted at Dessie in E6hiopla and rripoli in Ltoya. Ground forces At keren made galrs oeSpite heavy en- emy counter -attacKs, heaoquarters said.
 A communique said that in south- eastern Ethlopia British advances were continuing.
 (In Nalrool a south African head quarters communique said that 5riCSh paGrols hau contacted the enemy" in the difficult, mountain ous country surrounding the Marda Pass, eight mues west of Jigjiga. 1t was announced yesterday that Brit. ish troops had occupied Jigjiga)
 Cairo headquarters said that "Six guns and more than 200 prisoners, including l3 Italian officers" were taken wnen the British reoccupied serpera, capital of British Somali- land, last Sunday.
 Heaviest tighGlng ragged in the Keren area and an RAF communl" que said that Italian troops and transport there were bomoed from the ar.
 Dive Bombers Hit
 Enemy positions in hills around Keren were repeatedly dive-bomned and machine -gunned," a communi- que said. Enemy motor transport on the road between Keren and As- mara was attacked.
 Tn 6 heavy raid on Asniara bombs were dropped on the Tele- graph office and the Fiat works.
 Another formation bombed the railway station. The Dessie air. drome was heavily attacked and severely damaged"
 Nairob!, Kenya, March 20-(UP) British patrols were reported to- day by the South African command to have contacted Italian forces in the mountainous country surround ing the Marda Pass, eight miles west of Jigjiga in the direction of the Adds Ababa .Djibouti railway.
 (The Italian high command said In Rome that Italian troops were making a stand at Marda Pass, the only defense point between Jigpig and Harar.)
 "The occupation of Jigjiga was carried out without difficulty and some prisoners were taken" a com- inunique said.
 By the occupation of this i'm. portant center, new routes were opened up running east towards Berbera and west towards Diredawa where the road meets the railway from Djibouti," 1t was daded.
 The Marda Pass is about 50 miles from the vital Adds Ababa D jibouti railway, the Ethiopian capitals last line of communications with the outside world.
 Operations around Neghelli are continuing according to plan," the communique said.
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