CLASH IN LIBYA
ENEMY RECONNAISSANCE UNITS DRIVEN BACK ENCOUNTER WITH BRITISH FORCES. RAIDS BY R.A.F. ON BASES. In Libya, states the 8.8. C., advanced elements of British forces, about 140 miles from Benghazi, encountered and drove back reconnaissance units of armoured fighting vehicles, believed to be German. The R.A.F. has constantly raided Tripoli and other Mediterranean bases, both Italian and German. ALLIED SEAMEN RELEASED AT MERCA. HELD AS PRISONERS OF WAR BY ITALIANS. ißeceived This Day, 10.20 a.m.* RUGBY, February 27. Not the least, satisfactory feature of the highly successful advance in Italian Somaliland is that the British recovered two hundred Allied seamen • who had been held for many months al Merea by Italians as prisoners of war. Merea is on the Italian Somaliland coast. about halfway between Brava and Mogadishu.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 5
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131CLASH IN LIBYA Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 5
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