WESTWARD ADVANCE
PRESSED BY EIGHTH ARMY AIR ATTACKS ON TARGETS IN SICILY AND ON SMALL ENEMY SHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) RUGBY, January 24. A Cairo communique states: “Yesterday our troops, after occupying Tripoli, continued their advance and by evening were in contact with the enemy well to the west. Following on 72 hours of intensive attack, the Allied air forces reduced their pressure yesterday, owing to the fast withdrawal and thinning out of the enemy’s motorised columns. Our light bombers on Friday night attacked the most easerly of the enemy landing grounds and started fires and targets in Sicily were also attacked. Fighter-bombers continued their assault against targets in Sicily yesterday and small shipping off Tunisia was bombed and machine-gunned. One of our aircraft is missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1943, Page 3
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