SUCCESSFUL PATROL.
ITALIAN OUTPOST ATTACKED. MANY CASUALTIES AT TOBRUK. (Roc. n. 35 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. A communique issued by Head-, quarters at Cairo states: “During Monday night a strong fighting patrol operating from the eastern sector of the Tobruk defences attacked and put to flight a large party- of Italians which was occupying an isolated defended locality over two miles distant from our lines. The enemy sustained many casualties and left one gun and 20 rifles in our hands. Although other .patrols operating to the southward penetrated deep into enemy positions they failed to make contact. “In the frontier area one of our mechanised patrols succeeded in destroying considerable stocks of aviation spirit oil on a hostile landing ground. (Elsewhere in the frontier area aggressive activity hv our patrols continued.”—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 247, 31 July 1941, Page 5
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