INVASION OF LIBYA
STREAM OF REINFORCEMENTS & SUPPLIES POURING ALONG THE ROAD FROM CAIRO. NEW ZEALAND DRIVERS WORKING HARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright > (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON. January 2. Reinforcements and supplies of ■ munitions for the attack against the Italians in Libya are still pouring day and night along the 350 j mile road from Cairo. One New ; Zealand lorry driver told a correspondent that he had done three | journeys, each of two hundred miles, without a rest, and probj ably would make a fourth. j The spirit of the British troops is ■ wonderful, despite the fact that they : have been living for three weeks on j bully beef and other hard tack. The R.A.F. is gaining sucI cesses, sometimes al odds of fifteen to I one. I The British, on Christmas Day. oci copied Adimo aerodrome, from which I most of the attacks by the Italians have 1 been delivered. The Italians are now i forced to use aerodromes west of I Tobruk, such as Banghazi. Tmimi and i Derna, all of which the R.A.F. is stead- ! ily making more uncomfortable.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 6
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183INVASION OF LIBYA Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 6
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