FALL OF TOBRUK
PUZZLE STILL UNSOLVED.
CAPE TOWN, July 3.
Major-General de Villiers, who recently commanded the Second South African Division in Libya, refening to Tobruk, said: “I have heard it asked, ‘Why didn’t we hold Tobruk longer?’ What happened I do not know. I was the commander a month before the fall, and I knew then that it was contemplated that Tobruk should be held if the evacuation of the Gazala lire were decided on. I do not know what happened in the meantime.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 3
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85FALL OF TOBRUK Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 3
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