KNOTTY PROBLEMS
CONFRONTING ROMMEL DEFENCE OR ABANDONMENT OF TRIPOLI. SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES EITHER WAY. (British Official Wireless.) (Receiveci This Day, 9.55 a.m.) ■ RUGBY, December 28. The enemy commander in Libya, it is thought in London, must be confronted with awkward problems. If he could get his forces into Tunisia largely intact' he would bring valuable reinforcements to his colleague there. On the. other hand, if to do this he retired from Tripoli quickly, the Eighth Army would be able to advance quickly and that would mean, among other things, that the enemy army in Tunisia would be under heavy air pressure from the east and south as well as from the west. Again, if Rommel went right back to Tunisia he would give up Tripoli, the only port on that part of the coast'. Yet if he delayed in any way he would suffer losses and might find it difficult to extricate himself when it became necessary.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1942, Page 3
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156KNOTTY PROBLEMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1942, Page 3
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