Late News AGAIN WON ALL TANK FIGHTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 51, 24 November 1941, Page 8

Late News AGAIN WON ALL TANK FIGHTS

British Dominate Battlefields HIGHER LOSSES SUSTAINED (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 23. The Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says it is learned that the British forces yesterday paid a higher price than in previous days in men and material but won all of the numerous tank engagements. The British dominate the battlefields and thus are able to recover damaged tanks but it is understood the great tank battle may continue for two or three days. Reuter’s correspondent with the Eighth Army says that on the first day of the attack the enemy concentrated a considerable force of tanks north of Sidi Omar, intending to defend Solium against an attack from the south and consolidate a strong line, barring the British approach to Tobruk. “The enemy forces In north-east Libya are largely German, and therefore it will not be surprising to see them fight to the bitter end to deny us the use of solum harbour,” he adds. The spearhead of our advance was a famous British cavalry regiment equipped with light tanks. The United States military attache in Egypt, who travelled in a legation wagou bearing corps diplomatique number plates, and 10 United States military observers accompanied the British advance.