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Need of Men Vital – 2
The International Situation – 3
R.A.F. in 3,000 Raids – 4-5
Court in France Dooms De Gaulle – 5
Beaverbrook Put in the War Cabinet – 5-6
New Curbs Placed on Jews in Reich – 6
Gustaf Stresses Swedish Defenses – 7
Windsors’ Plans are Still in Doubt – 7
French Financing an Acrobatic Task – 8
Nazi Air Raid Leaflets Bring Good Prices; British Officials Unable to Obtain Copies – 8
261 Troop Trucks off to ‘War’ Today – 9
Nazis Bomb Irish Ship; Dublin Protests Incident – 9
2 Submarines Lost by Foe, Nazis Claim – 10
Doubting Cameraman Hit By a Wallace Boomerang – 10
France to Dissolve Freemasons’ Order – 10
Plattsburg Gives Prizes to C.M.T.C. – 11
Battle for Britain is on, Italians Insist – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 12-13

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/aug40/f03aug40.htm

Italians invade British Somaliland

Saturday, August 3, 1940 www.onwar.com

In East Africa... The Italians invade British Somaliland. In Abyssinia the Italians have a total force of 350,000 men of whom 70 percent are native troops. The British forces in East Africa, also including many colonial troops, are less than 25,000 men of whom only four battalions are in Somaliland. The Italians allot seven times this force to the invasion along with an overwhelmingly superior artillery contingent. General Nasi is in command. There are three main lines of advance: toward Zeila in the north, Hargeisa in the center and Odweina on the right.

In the English Channel... There are German attacks on shipping.