HEAVY LOSSES
SUFFERED BV THE SOUTH AFRICANS 'RECRUITING APPEAL MADE BY SMUTS. REPORT REGARDING GENERAL RITCHIE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 27. Broadcasting a recruiting appeal, General Smuts said that South Africa’s losses in the latest Axis offensive before the fall of Tobruk were 140 killed or died of wounds and 1945 wounded or missing. The losses in Tobruk were not known yet, but it was known that two of our three brigade groups from the second division and two composite battalions and four artillery batteries from the first division were lost. The British United Press correspondent in Johannesburg says a report is circulating that Major-General Ritchie has been relieved of the command of Eighth Army.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 3
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116HEAVY LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 3
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