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GERMANS AND ITALIANS IN LIBYA AIR AND SEA ATTACKS ON COMMUNICATIONS. TOBRUK NOT AN EASY PREY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 10. “Frequent sinkings of enemy supply ships bound for Libya and the bombardment of Libyan ports and aerodromes by the R.A.F. are making the position of the German and Italian forces in North Africa uncomfortable and even precarious,” says “The Times” Cairo correspondent. “Further supplies of heavy tanks and armoured cars for the Axis forces in Libya (he adds) are becoming problematical, owing to the shortage of Mediterranean shipping. The quays of Benghazi are receiving ton tons of bombs daily, for which reason large vessels are forced to unload by lighter. The initiative has passed to the British. The Italians and Germans dare not attack Tobruk, which they regarded three months ago as an easy prey, because they cannot risk the loss of men and material incurred in previous attacks.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 6
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