BASES AT BENGHAZI AND TOBRUK
REPORTED BRITISH PLANS .. LONDON. October 11. a Britain will send 30,000 troops to , enrhazi. in Cyrenaica, which will be Dp as a new Mediterranean base, the Malta correspondent of the Daily Express,” quoting reliable rejrts. He adds that Tobruk will bea naval base. '-yrenaica. the eastern part of Libya knS-ring on Egypt, is peopled by ’DJOO Senussi. It was freed from 20 Fascist rule by Britain’s Bth wny. 15 ndUran ce Flight Record.— Two K^ ary airmen landed their small ■jjj'P-ane at Yuma, Arizona, yesterK.’/ after setting a new world enK^? Ce fli Kht record of 46 days 20 ■K.p minutes. They were Yuma K>»2 essmen - Messrs Woody JongeBob Woodhouse. They had • j t 0 stay aloft indefinitely, but Kt ed " out ma £ n eto forced a change Kh v The Previous record was 42 New York, October 11.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25933, 13 October 1949, Page 5
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