ADVANCE FROM CHAD
MENACING ENEMY DESERT STRONGPOINTS. DEFENCE OF WADI ZAMZAM. LONDON, January 4. The Rome radio admits that Allied columns in southern Libya have succeeded in infiltrating deep .into Italian territory and constitute a danger to Axis strongpoints in the Fezzan area, deep in the desert, about 500 miles south of Tripoli. The forces referred to may be a column reported some time ago to be moving in from Lake Chad, the movements of which have been cloaked in secrecy. * The Wadi Zamzam, where Rommel appears to be planning to make a stand against the Eighth Army, is a rock-strewn dry watercourse, 195 miles from Tripoli. , The “New York Times” correspondent in Libya reports that two roughly parallel defensive systems are under construction at Wadi Zamzam, but the British, with their superior mobility, should be able to crack them and turn the enemy’s flank from the south.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1943, Page 3
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