Axis Forces Drive Towards Tobruk

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 126, 30 May 1942, Page 7

Axis Forces Drive Towards Tobruk

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Free French Forces Smash First Italian Tank Attack

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While, according to ,h, | at ,« r . LONDON - May 29. approaching Tobruk, British r ° re P°rts, Axis forces are the campaign as "satisfactory quarters Cairo describe say General Ritchie i 9 confidenf rom ollr P° ,nt of view." They suggesting that things have not a™ indications have appeared The main tank battle is qU ' tC aCC ° rding to Axis P^n. and Knightsbridge. A Free Frr W |. P between Acroma attack at Bir Hacheim, and it i» oU/ j ,Bl P n re P ul »ed an Italian Italian tanks. The Frek FrenchVl ' they destr 35 the Pacific, mainly white troon* IS, °JI mc |P d . e » a battalion from troops from Guiana and Tahiti A dlv,s f on . f lso includes infantry and Spahis. Most of th#» A ' . ot k, er colonials, motoriaed Syria from the Vichy forces " 75 » WCre "Ptured in Heavy fighting continued all yesterdav Of ♦ columns which moved north-ea<»* R" l two ene «*y W A,,r d r ,o .» Adem ' w A r„b"iv r : c,cd engagement got as Sdrß"* h"* avoi<ied an forces drove off these elements Tki 1 Z f gli ' °. U] [ armoured with the other in the neighbourly A S « C £- , at ? r J°' ned forces track centre north of Bir Hacheim ° , which is a Acroma. " Hache,m a " d about 12 miles south of Ad er^an armouJecf unils l°7 901,111 of E1 columns south of El Adem. essf uHy attacked enemy supply forcej^int^cepting'eneiny^ air 'T'"?, Und enemy vehicles. * ta ° ks * nd co ™derably damaging Knigh! s b S ,id\ U e ho bu? ll ß,f,L''k e ,ce,' h a a , t e B "H"? ar ° un j Gaza la. Every position U ,r. Ha che.m and warfare, but the result of the battfe b" 3 for a day or two. Rommel so far doi-« 1 Un nown plished anything which General Sir CfcSPe * £ CCOm ," General Ritchie would not have anticipated.