OPERATIONS IN LIBYA
BRITISH ADVANCE DETACHMENTS CONCENTRATING Air Attacks on Enemy Convoy and on Tripoli POSSIBILITIES OF CAMPAIGN DISCUSSED USE OF REGION OF PREPARED POSITIONS In Libya, the concentration of British advance detachments is continuing’, states the 8.8.0. The R.A.F. has attacked an enemy motor transport convoy 120 miles south of Benghazi and also bombed Tripoli. A high official spokesman in Cairo states that the British are allowing the enemy to penetrate eastward until he reaches a point where we can give battle with an assurance of success. It would have been senseless to leave light advance forces exposed to the strength of the present enemy attack. These forces are concentrating in a region of prepared positions. The British commander considers the smashing of the enemy of more importance than the loss of part of the desert.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 5
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137OPERATIONS IN LIBYA Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 5
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