SERIOUS LOSSES
BUT STRONG FORCE LEFT STATEMENT BY GENERAL SMUTS. SOUTH AFRICA TO PROVIDE REINFORCEMENTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, June 22. General Smuts said today in Cape Town that while the fall of Tobruk involved the capture of a substantial number of South Africans, the exact composition of the garrison was not yet known . It can be stated, however, that the South Africans in Tobruk held to the last the section of the perimeter allocated to them, thus upholding, the fighting tradition of the South African Army. ... “While we should not minimise the seriousness of the losses the South Africans have thus sustained,’ General Smuts said, “there remains in the field a strong, well-equipped fighting force. The larger’ part of our total forces weie sent to Egypt. These units, with the reinforcements which South Africa will now provide, will play a large pait in the defence of Egypt from control by the Axis.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1942, Page 3
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