OUTLOOK IN LIBYA
PREPARATIONS FOR OFFENSIVE BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS. COOLER WEATHER APPROACHING IBv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! LONDON. September 11. The British United Press Cape Town correspondent says Britain is believed to be preparing to launch in Libya the most powerful offensive of the war. The How' of supplies and reinforcements is stated to have reached a point enabling the British to take advantage of the cooler weather in the Western Desert and Germany's preoccupation with Russia. Thousands of tons of American shipping laden with all kinds of war supplies are now rounding the Cape bound for the Middle East and the Far East. The return cargoes include large quantities of rubber, chrome and manganese. American planes have been seen in West Africa flying southwards. Although there is no confirmation that I substantial quantities of American supplies have as yet been ferried across the Atlantic, they have at least been seen on part of the coast from Bissau to Monrovia in Liberia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 5
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159OUTLOOK IN LIBYA Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 5
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