HAMMERED BY ALLIES.
ROMMEL’S RETREATING FORCES.
FALL OF TRIPOLI EXPECTED. (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 22 Allied air forces from Malta, Tunisia and Tripolitania are v hammering Marshal "Rommel’s withdrawing forces. The ploughing of the aerodrome at Castel Benito was interrupted by an air attack, and all the ploughs weie put out of action. The ploughing is further confirmation that Marshal Rommel does not intend to make .more than a delaying action. —British Official Wireless. The Cairo reporter of the 8.8. C. says in his mid-day dispatch that to-day s news of advances by the Bth Army has increased expectations that Tripoli will be in British hands very soon. There was some stiffening of enemy resistance yesterday, with tank clashes 35 miles south of Tripoli. Marshal Rommel was using his rearguards to cover the evacuation of Tripoli.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 88, 23 January 1943, Page 3
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