The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
BRITISH REPORT
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Night Raiders DOwI

shot down Si1ce last WedneSday.
 The rai6s on the south coast were widespread tut ret especially 6am- aging. Some casualties were report Cd. A large forcS Of civilian watch CTS hs'r3d ol.pc-'s of the incendiary 5onrs sno Ec large fires were Sartcd.
 Lcndors alarm lasted from early evening until cary morning but was practically without incident, except for the dropping of a few bombs in che district On the outskirts.
 Raiders were reported over yari- GUS Soc. ions, inciuding the west and mi6lar6s areas but the only other place reported bombed was an East Anglican town where, it was said, there were no casualties.
 The air ministry home security ministry communique said that "all raids ended by the early hours of this morning." It said high explo- sive bombs caused damage in some places but nowhere on 8 large scale.
 The air ministry had reported earlier that a raider was shot down over the channel yesterday after noon.
 Yesterday morning, a raider 6ived over an East Anglican town and dropped five explosive bombs near the seashore, killing or wounding several persons. The plane then machine-gunned the streets of a neighboring town, shattering shop windows and causing other damage.
 It was disclosed that two of six persons wounded in machine gun attack on an East Anglican train Saturday had died in hospital.
 On Egyptian Front
 Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 20.-UP)- Italian troops routed from the gar- rison at Kassala, Anglo Egyptian Sudan, were being pursued today into the Ethiopian hills, where they were in danger of meeting hostile Ethiopian patriots, reports from the East African front said today.
 The British recapture of Kassala, taken by the Italians last July, left only scattered Italian units in Su- danese territory and eliminated all danger of an Italian drive there, it was said.
 (At London, military experts es- timated that the Italians had lost 2,0O0 in killed and wounded at Kas- sala ill the past six and a half months of fighting and the British less than 200. The recapture of Kas- sala was called "a major defeat for the Ita1ianS.")
 There were said to have been vir- tually no British casualties in the kassala campaign. The British never attacked in force, but sniped at the garrison cand its communication lines with mobile units incessantlv for months, worrying the Italians until they finally fled, deciding the town was not worth keeping.
 Importance of the recapture of the British lay in the towns rail transportation facilities. Kassala also Is the center of vast cotton growing area.
 The British were reported still pursuing the Kassala garrison and It was believed that the Italians would not be able to make a stand until they reached high ground in the Ethiopian interior. There they would be menaced by Ethiopians who are being equipped with arms by a British mission.
 Admits Malta Raids
 Fartlaliy offsetting the victory at kassala, however, was a British air force communique announcing that Malta had been severely raided again Sunday by a large force of German Junkers 87's and 88's. H.e cc'lmunique said six Junkers were shot down and others were badly damaged and that two British fight Ing planes were shot down, but one pilot was saved.
 GA dispatch from valletta, Malta said 15 enemy" planes were shot down in spectacular raids Sunday during which considerable damage was done to civilian property, and that one British fighting plane was lost. A 4OO-year-old church was said to have been hit the second time in 48 hours and another church was bombed, the dispatch said. It said that In addition to the planes shot down Sunday, seven Junkers 8Ts were shot down Saturday by Brit ish fighting planes, three by anti aircraft guns, and three more dam aged and possibly shot down by flghters)
 (An Italian communique Sunday said that German bomber forma- tlons, escorted by Italian and Ger man chaser squadrons, attacked a number of airports on the Island Of Malta. Hangers, barracks and concrete runways were hit. Numer- ous large fires were observed. One British plane of the Hurricane type was shot down. One German plane failed to return.)
 The Royal Air Force communicate said that in another British raid on besieged Tobruk, on the Libyan coast, Friday night, "A huge fire was caused near petrol dumps but other damage was not observed be- cause of the weather, however all bombs fell well within the target area"
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