OF GOOD IMPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1941, Page 5

OF GOOD IMPORT

BRITISH MINISTER ON’ PALL OP BARDIA GENERAL WAVELL’S MASTER STROKE. TRF.MENDOES DI FFICUI .TIES OVERCOME. if’.ritiJi Official . RUGBY January ft. "The best news, perhaps, that this war has yet brought us. but not the best that will be brought." This was how the Minister of Information, Mr Duff Cooper, described Britain’s victory at Bardii, in a broadcast. "General Waveß's great victory is the Libyan Desert will rank for eves high among Britmh military achwve menLs," he said "It was a madci s'.rMte carefully planned and carried i ut with the exactitude .-uh! precismii that has ever characterised the work pf the great masters of the military profession. "The result: arc astounding. "it is only when we haw come to try it that we realise how a :dt the assault on Bardin was. This strong defensive p...:1:..t: held by 32W)0 tr>>o|)s, supported by powerful aitdivry nml modern tanks. has been attacked and captured after an <ipcrat!..n Listing only three days. mid. ar. far as informat; >n ; ?w. a: j .-r<-nat a r ' <" only .1 few iiundr- 1 i-.i-ti litie-- W.'h :r <<()■• me.'ith ■.',<• ri.r.e captured ra-arly 70.000 ( ,f >.he < :-.<-my t....... p stipple am! valuuble <■ ;mp; ■■■.' "The rapture <J Bardin h.i . bu r i Ven m- I.' e ■ ..per’ar:;!.ir ’him capture <■: 5u11.:.:.', three -.'.e.;, a;;,. "Th*'-,e are vict<>i a-. ..f jw • order, and we have the r;,;!"’ lie cheerful Having ,-. f f’Catukit;. .is-.; b. th. e <;»• .... - them Tm- cap: ~f S !h;. . . ... ; a ma: ch .-f i i ) mJ-•-. a< ■... ]<- . ci.--.er: I 1 wa- : . .. ■■■.-. ; • supply the tr ;th . t.i -iiippß ; h.e w.'. , :.:.e : ... j

i : ' u FPb’ the guns and rifles with ;im- . munition. It mmht well have been j thought thru the 140 miles w;. . almost f the limit over which communications j could pe maintained but, having eap- ; '.tired Solium General Wavell without I hesitation <>r haste, pressed forward in I oidvr that those troops of the enemv j who nvi.-'.i d on Bardia should not i escape."