BRITISH PATROLS
ACTIVE AT TOBRUK
AND IN FRONTIER ZONE.
SUCCESSFUL MINOR OPERATIONS,
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.22 a.m.) RUGBY, August 1
A communique from Cairo headquarters states: “Our patrols at Tobruk again penetrated deeply into enemy lines on the night of July. 30. Contact with the enemy was not made, but all the patrols procured valuable information.
“A daylight patrol, operating yesterday with great skill, stalked and captured a prisoner, thereby securing the identification for which it had been dispatched. “In the frontier zone our artillery engaged and inflicted casualties upon working parties and mechanical transport in the Halfaya area.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 5
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