AXIS PROGRESS
STAYED & TURNED ACCORDING TO BRITISH MINISTER. BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENT IN EGYPT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 14. The progress of the Axis, brought to a halt at Taranto and on the Greek frontier, is definitely stayed and turn- > ed. This was the opinion expressed by Brigadier-General Lord Croft, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for War, when commenting on the battle in the Western Desert today. “Prudence in the face of a numerically superior enemy,” said Lord Croft “might have dictated a static defence by General Wavell in Egypt. An irresistible urge to get at the Italians ourselves and assist Greece in an instant fight, however, impelled our commander-in-chief to reverse the roles and himself attack his entrenched and fortified adversary. “The operation of the last few days was one of the most skilful and brilliant episodes of the great story of the British army.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 4
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