A High Command communique claimed today that Italian forces in East Africa repulsed an attack, inflicting “considerable losses on the enemy,” among whom “there were many Jews from Palestine.” An earlier communique said some Jews were killed in fighting in the Ambarlagi area of Ethiopia.
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