TOBRUK DEFENDERS
Enemy Working Parties Shelled (British Oitieial Wireless.) (Received August 31, 7.50 p.m.) RUGBY, August 30. A communique issued in Cairo todaj' by British General Headquarters in the Middle East states that in the Tobruk area our artillery shelled two large enemy working parties and destroyed a small ammunition dump. Our patrols also successfully engaged several parties of the enemy. There was a considerable increase in enemy shellfire.
In the frontier area our artillery continued to harass enemy transport movements.
Enemy artillery at Tobruk was active on Friday, and there were several dive-bombing attacks during the day, but no damage resulted. Our own artillery successfully engaged a large enemy work party. In the frontier area there was some exchange of artillery fire. At Jarabub enemy aircraft drop]x>d bombs, causing slight damage to the Seuussi mosque there.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 287, 1 September 1941, Page 8
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