Merry – Go – Round Tank Test In Libya

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1942, Page 5

Merry - Go - Round Tank Test In Libya

BATTLE CONTINUES

Thousands Of Un d MfneJ (n New British Defence Strategy

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The merry-go-round tank battl LO , N P° N ' 28 " after 36 hours, to the north-east of " Tu r3ging ' has not made any apnreriakU j riacheim. The enemv fy.ng and the ene^i^emg hoi""""' h ? fißh,i "«= » air. It i, reliably s , a , ed i„ c a ;°' 'and and in the considerable force of tanks,'' while "k i j r . ma f n ® are "sing "a are entfaf<ed. hundreds of Imperial tanks hitherto secret, give a cleare/pSuJ^of''th reVCal detail s tactics of the British. The def™ battleground and the laid to canalise the German thrus^ 3 C ° nslst of a S r eat minefield minefield are strongly fortified In "iv areas " Behind the possible for enemy ° 0 ' p c „ J"" 1 'Ibetween1 between which i, is thrusts took the canals dictated bv tk • c or ' smal German Hacheim and the other went no tk S 9 keing engaged at Bir was opposed by Imper alTank, °' ak" , '° U EI Adem - wh "e it on hilly, rocky ground between Ca Z ala and fj? P S™ 8 °" a mass of dug-in positions and t Tobruk and among field of fire dfat Z ™ was laid i e n r^c^,7,i"reaTtr, 1 '.»>»' ? great minefield to the Imperial forward positions. 0 000"^°'""°" it te. d b!Tw T'ctS. Z":< .ion from the attcmpT ,o h Alt'" and swing north-east to Tobruk but r,.n ar Hacheim region confused by this manoeuvre Gen " al Rl,ch " ! «»' »ot a„.ck The T A he°A^, ed fo P r"" L"e C b:: 8 „ P ° ndent T' ■" " ?° weeks. Neither Rome nor Berlin Sphering for several land battles, their communiques dealing 5 o„"y' wUI/alrTghu" ' h<! wireli'mr» h .;e.'"Lr, ly th?'ci^!r 0 : don - " yS , \ B "' ish O«cW offensive and that the left flank is ° VC 1" 13 a rea^ enemy s armoured forces wherever thev ™-wk ' , y , the & Sri ft * njnnfng'sore^for'a To'brdTL'a