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ITALIAN NEWSPAPER’S ANTICIPATION IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTH AFRICA. INEFFECTIVE AXIS RAIDS CN SUEZ CANAL. LONDON. September 27. Reporting big concentrations of British troops in Egypt the Milan newspaper, “Popolo d’ltalia," says important operations in North Africa arc imminent. Axis planes, it says, are constantly bombing the road between Jarabub and the Siwa Oasis, over which there are considerable movements of British forces. The “New York Times" Cairo correspondent says the Axis is trying to get ships across the Mediterranean and simultaneously is bombing the Suez Canal night after night in an attempt to plug the stream of munitions flowing in an ever increasing volume from the United States and the Empire. For all its activities the Axis has not closed the canal or paralysed the ports. ITALIAN ADMISSION SURRENDER OF WOLCHEFIT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.42 a.m.) RUGBY. September 28. A Rome communique states: “Our garrison at Wolchefit, in Abyssinia, has been ordered to cease flighting.”
DENIAL OF RUMOURS GENERAL WAVELL'S VISIT TO TEHERAN. (British OfTicial Wireless.) RUGBY. September 27. It is authoritatively stated in London that reports that an expedition is now being organised by General Waved through Iran are without foundation, as also are stories of large numbers of troops and tanks being sent from India destined for the Caucasus. The fact is, according to statements made in London today, that when General Waved left London it was his intention to call at Teheran on his way back to India. Teheran is in an area which is part of General Wavell’s command, and it was natural for him on his arrival in Teheran to discuss with the Russian representatives there any necessary joint defence measures. FLEET CRUISE ALONG THE LIBYAN COAST. - NO WAR ATTACK ATTEMPTED BY ENEMY. (Received This Day. 9.42 a.m.) LONDON September 28. The Associated Press of Great Britain's correspondent aboard the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, describing a cruise, said this was one of the dullest, owing to lack of action, but it was news because it was-the first time the fleet had not been attacked from the air. He added: “Battleships, cruisers and destroyers swept along the Libyan coast. unsuccessfully searching for enemy shipping. It is the biggest movement of warships I have seen since the evacuation of Crete.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1941, Page 5
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