GERMAN REMNANTS
HARRIED BY MOBILE COLUMNS IN LIBYA Seven Thousand Axis Prisoners Taken in Bardia RELEASED EMPIRE TROOPS INCLUDE 632 NEW ZEALANDERS FIERCE BATTLES REPORTED IN FRONTIER AREA LONDON, January 4. Axis prisoners captured in Bardia now number 7,000, of whom 1,000 are Germans. The clearance of the battlefield continues. Fierce battles are reported to be raging* at Halfaya and Solium, in the frontier area. In the Jedabaya region the remnants of General Rommel’s forces are being harried on a wide front by our mobile columns. In addition to further damaging attacks on enemy transport on roads in Libya and on Tripoli, British air forces have again attacked Naples. Heavy damage was done to an aircraft factory and other industrial buildings. Photographic evidence has been obtained of the damage done in repeated raids on Naples. The Royal Arsenal has been destroyed and a torpedo factory seriously damaged. British torpedo-carrying planes attacked an enemy ship of 5,000 tons off the Tripolitanian coast. The results could not be observed owing to the intense fire of an escorting ship.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1942, Page 3
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176GERMAN REMNANTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1942, Page 3
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