Enemy Preparing For Another Assault On Tobruk
ATTACKS on acroma thrown back •Jj
London, June 17. I j sa t present a pause in the desert battle in Libya. The I TllCl eos' arc being held at the three keypoints guarding the of Tobruk. rT-'. three points are Acroma in the south-west, El Adem in I ) . m d Sidi Rezegh in the south-east. They form a big semift’ilh ii front of about 50 miles. V. )iice of tl |( ‘ lighting has slackened and although all our 1 -.si of Acroma have been withdrawn, the situation has not "Jv changed in the past 24 hours. pricks ‘were made on Acroma by Axis forces yesterday but l re thrown back. pie box at El Adem was not itself attacked there was Mr' yesterday in the neighbourhood. The obvious intention • •■ M ; illiy \ Va s'to capture Sidi Rezegh and complete the encircle- ■*. Tobruk. However, he met strong Allied resistance and the ,L , V as broken off. \correspondent states that the present lull may mean that the s are pausing for breath before resuming „ the battle for He says that we must not underestimate the rapidity with fVt'he Germans can recover for a new attack. The fact that r^ a|l tall jj S are as far east as. Sidi Rezegh remains a serious ; it to Tobruk. Unr bombers and fighter-bombers continue to harass enemy concentrations wherever they can be torpid.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13670, 18 June 1942, Page 5
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