NEWS OF THE WEEK
HE African campaign maintains its record of unbroken success. In East Africa the Italians are being relentlessly ressed in the north in Eritrea, in the south in Italian Somaliland, nd in the interior by Ethiopian " patriots." Advancing in a egion which is on the line of the Equator, Imperial troops, sup- rted by South African airmen, drove the enemy out of Afmadu Somaliland, and pushed on to the port of Kismayu. The town ell under the combined assault of ground and air forces and nits of the fleet, which shelled the coast. Operations are now ontinuing on the line of the river Juba. Far to the north, in trea, the Italian army which retreated from Agordat is putting p a stiff resistance at Keren, a fortress accessible only by recipitous cliffs. But there is probably a better way of ousting e enemy than by direct assault. A British column has been dvancing from Karora in the north near the Red Sea, and has cached a point only 4o miles east-north-east of Keren, evening to get on to the Italian line of communications. other column, proceeding rapidly from Barentu, is executing n encircling movement on a line south of Keren. If the talians persist in holding on to Keren they are likely to find hemselves cut off from their base and surrounded. Its fall Ight seal the fate of the whole of Eritrea. Over happenings a Libya an impenetrable veil has been cast.
