FURTHER GAINS
MADE BY FRENCH FORCES
ON TUNISIAN SOUTHERN BORDERS. FEZZAN TERRITORY BEING ORGANISED.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 11
A communique from the headquarters of General Leclerc, French commander in Southern Tunisia, states that, operations in Northern Fezzan are proceeding favourably and that: “We are going ahead rapidly with the military administrative organisation of territory occupied by the Fighting French forces. Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Delange has been appointed Military Governor of the Fezzan territory.” ' Lieutenant-Colonel Delange played a big part in rallying Equatorial Africa to the Free French and in 1941 distinguished himself in the Syrian campaign. The Dakar radio today reported that strong French forces, advancing from Ghadames, southward of Tunisia, had penetrated into Tripolitania, where they were now engaged in heavy fighting for an important Italian post, _25 miles from the Algerian-Tripolitanian frontier, northward of Ghadames. These forces are operating 450 miles southward of Tunis. Ghadames is not far from the junction of the borders of Tunisia, Algeria and Tripolitania.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1943, Page 4
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167FURTHER GAINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1943, Page 4
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