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GENERAL WAVELL’S STRATEGY ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS , CUT. ADVANCE OF THE ARMOURED UNITS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. February 8. Messages from Cairo emphasise how General Wavell’s strategy in sending the Australians along the coast road while armoured units forked south Tobruk to Mekili applied the coup de grace to Cyrenaica. The Italian resistance at Mekili was overcome after two days. Armoured units then, without using radio, in order not to reveal their positions, struck out for Benghazi. Some distance before they reached the town they turned South and reached the coastline below Benghazi, cutting communications with the rest of Libya. The whole of this movement was timed to synchronise with the arrival : of the Australians outside Benghazi. The plan worked perfectly. The defenders of Benghazi were faced with the enemy on both fronts and their retreat was cut off.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 5
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139BRILLIANT STROKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 5
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