MOPPING-UP IN LIBYA
NEW ZEALANDERS ACTIVE IN NORTHERN AREA GAMBIT LARGEST SUPPLY BASE (N.Z.E.F. Official News Service) CAIRO, December 10. As part of the extensive mopping-up operations in the area north of the Bardia-Tobruk road. New Zealand and South African mobile forces continue to dapture large quantities of enemy stores and ammunition. Yesterday New Zealand columns took 27 tanks and workshops were also taken. The importance of this work is seen as the Germans withdraw westwards and find increasing difficulty in recovering and repairing its army field vehicles. Gambut, which was reoctupied yesterday, was first taken by New Zealanders on the fourth day of the campaign. Here was the largest supply depot of the northern area.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23513, 16 December 1941, Page 4
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