PREMATURE REPORT
BRITISH DESERT POST NOT OVERRUN DEFENDED SUCCESSFULLY. AGAINST MORE NUMEROUS FORCE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 28. Details now received show that an announcement in yesterday’s Cairo comunique that an observation post had been .overrun by a strong enemy detachment was premature. Later facts are disclosed .in today’s communique, which states that, owing to bad visibility, our patrols at Tobruk' yesterday mistook the location of our listening post which was believed to have been overrun during the night of October 24. Yesterday the listening post, with its garrison, was found to be intact, a small party of British officers and other ranks having successfully beaten off an attack by numerically superior enemy forces. Yesterday, in the frontier area, patrolling activities were again continued without interference from the enemy,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1941, Page 6
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135PREMATURE REPORT Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1941, Page 6
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