CAIRO--Fascist forces tonight were reported in "full retreat" from Britain's four-pronged invasion, of Italian East Africa after British forces captured the Eritrean railroad terminus of Agordat and "many hundreds of prisoners" in fierce battle.
The toll of Italian dead and wounded was said to have been heavy in the fighting for Agordat, gateway to Italy's Red Sea Port of Massawa, 100 miles eastward.
Great quantities of guns and mechanized transport were captured and 11 Italian tanks were destroyed, the British Middle East Command reported
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