LIBYAN CAMPAIGN
INDIAN TROOPS EVACUATE DERNA STRONG GERMAN FORCES BEATEN OFF. BRITISH MOBILE COLUMNS ACTIVE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 4. A Middle East war communique says: “After beating off strong German detachments, which had attempted to intercept their withdrawal, the Fourth Indian Division, on the night of February 2, successfully completed their movement from the last covering position about Derna and rejoined our main forces. Meanwhile our mobile columns, closely supported by our air forces, continued offensive activities in the desert east and north-east of Msus.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1942, Page 3
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92LIBYAN CAMPAIGN Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1942, Page 3
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