MUCH IMPROVED
SITUATION IN MIDDLE EAST MR LYTTELTON'S SURVEY. CAPTURE OF ROMMEL’S SUPPLIES LONDON, March 6. Mr Oliver Lyttelton, lately Minister of State in the Middle East, who has arrived in Britain to take up his post as Minister of Production, stated that we are in a far better position to defend Egypt than when the campaign began. At Bardia, the Eighth Army has captured the ammunition stocks which General Rommel had collected for the invasion of Egypt. These stocks had not yet all been counted. Mr Lyttelton stated, but when he was in Bardia the amount was estimated at from 50,000 to 100,000 tons. The Germans had been compelled to divert an entire air fleet from Russia to assist Rommel in Libya. The story of the last phase of the campaign had still to be written. Supply was all-important. A Cairo communique reports that heavy rain interfered with activities yesterday. Benghazi and Tripoli were again raided by our bombers on Wednesday night. It is now established that two merchant ships were destroyed by our bombers in the raid on Palermo on Monday night. Three of our planes are missing from the latest operations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 3
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194MUCH IMPROVED Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 3
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