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BELIEVED FORCED TO WITHDRAW Rommel’s Movement APPARENT SUPPLY DIFFICULTY
(By Telcgraph.— Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received September 5, 1.15 a.m.) LONDON, September 4.
The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent in the Western Desert says the Afrika Korps tinder cover of darkness started voluntarily withdrawing from _ the stovepipeshaped area in which they were pressed since dawn on Monday and have retreated nine miles southward.
The Associated Press correspondent states that British tanks moved up and took over the positions which the enemy abandoned. A message' from Cairo says British guns forced Rommel to withdraw his armoured forces southwestward by stopping them from getting supplies. Another reason for the .withdrawal was that the Germans need to reinforce their mobile artjllery.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 8
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117Late News Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 8
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