FIRST PHASE OVER
SUCCESS OF BRITISH OPENING MOVE FURTHER ;OUTLOOK OPEN. ENEMY TROOPS FIGHTING DESPERATELY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.22 a.m.) RUGBY, November 24. The fighting in Libya is hard and confused and no estimate of its course is possible at present. According to an expert commentator the first phase of General Auchinleck’s attack is over. It consisted of getting the British armoured formations forward and the start of a shouldering movement against the Axis .frontier defences. The second phase, which is now going on, has resolved into a fight against troops desperately struggling under an able commander. The Axis position and supply situation is not at all good and no doubt British air superiority will be maintained throughout, but either undue optimism or pessimism would be misplaced, when it is impossible to estimate how the second phase will develop. It is generally felt here, however, that the admirable planning of the first phase, which has led to complete British success, is a good omen for satisfactory progress in the second.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 5
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