MAY LAST FOR DAYS
BATTLES IN THE WESTERN DESERT Germans Attempting to Reach Defensive’ Positions MANY MORE ENEMY TANKS DESTROYED I FOLLOWING ON EARLIER HEAVY LOSSES (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY, November 23. A special correspondent with the British Army in the Western Desert writes that the latest information reaching advanced headquarters indicates that the battle is not settled yet and might last for several days, but is going better than was expected. Following on Saturday’s sacrifice of tanks, the Germans have lost the chief support of their panzer divisions. A useful indication is that sixty German tanks in one place held their position, which seems to point to a shortage of petrol. Early on Sunday morning, the Tobruk garrison, which had orders' yesterday to return to the edge of the perimeter, made another successful sortie, in a south-westerly direction, In the meantime, the New Zealanders resumed on Sunday morning their march westward, supported by tanks. Two panzer divisions are making a desperate attempt, south of Tobruk and west of Fort Gapuzzo, to escape. Slowly but surely a pincers movement is being carried out by three English armoured brigades, backed by English, New Zealand and South African brigades. Under cover of shells and constant bombing by all classes of aircraft, Germans are attempting to cut a wedge towards the Derna mountains, which would permit an organised defence, and where even the Italians checked the Australian advance towards Benghazi last year. Three English brigades, one of which is much faster than the German panzers, are closing up, and numerous rearguard actions took place yesterday, in which the Germans lost many more tanks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1941, Page 6
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