HEAVY LOSSES
SUFFERED BY ARMOURED f FORCES IN TRYING TO BREAK OUT ENEMY STILL BEING MAULED SEVERELY. AIR ATTACKS CONTINUED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, December 17. The fleeing Germans in Libya have been cut in two fifty miles west of El Agheila by British advanced forces. Reporting this, a Cairo communique states: “Early yesterdiy our advanced forces reached the Wadi Matratin and took up positions from there southwards, thereby cutting the retreating enemy columns into two. The enemy troops east of this area include armoured formations, which, in attempting to break out, have already suffered heavy casualties and continue to be severely mauled. Fighting continues.” A 1 The communique adds that the Allied air forces continue to attack tne retreating enemy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1942, Page 3
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