GAP KEPT OPEN
THE ENEMY FRONT
ATTACK FACILITATED
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received December 14, 9 a.m.)
RUGBY, December 13
The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it can now be stated that the Secretary of War, Mr. Eden, went to Egypt convinced that the British forces should take the offensive. It is understood that Mr. Churchill and General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, had no advance information of the actual date of the launching of an offensive, remaining content to leave matters in the able hands of. General Wavell. It is now revealed that incessant attacks for weeks by a famous mechanised regiment have kept open a gap in the enemy's front positions, frustrating attempts to complete the chain of fortified points. The breach was still open on December 9, with the result that the motorised forces were able to drive in according to plan.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 11
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