BARDIA BOMBARDED HEAVILY FROM SEA AND LAND
Garrison Passive Inside Strong Defences BRITISH ARMOURED PATROLS RANGING FAR TO WESTWARD HEAVY' RAIDING BY ROYAL AIR FORCE More British activity in the Bardia area is reported by the 8.8. C. The place has been heavily bombarded by sea and land. In addition, British armoured patrols have penetrated some seventy miles into Libya, reaching the area immediately south of Tobruk. The Italians in Bardia attempted vainly to reply to a bombardment by the heavy guns of British warships, but were unable to get- the range. The town of Bardia is defended by forty forts, linked by barbed wire and in front of the forts there is an anti-tank ditch 16 feet wide. A correspondent states that the besieging troops are troubled much more by sandstorms than by the Italians.
In Libya, the Italian air force is adopting much the same tactics as the Germans have been forced to adopt over Britain. A party of five Italians bombers may be escorted by as many as thirty or forty fighters, but even so are pasted by the British Hurricanes and Gladiators.
Heavy raiding has been carried out by the R.A.F. in the areas west of Bardia and also in Italian East Africa.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 5
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