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Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 12

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LABOUR CONFERENCE. • The Labour Conference reelected Or MlMillan vice-president and Air AL Median national secretary. There are 33 candidates fur the central executive (five vacancies). The venue of the next conference, in view of the war situation, has been left to the national executive.—Wellington Press Association, AUSTRALIAN MEAT. CANBERRA , April 16,-Thc Minister of Commerce (Sir Earle Page) ami on need that meat- prices in Australia would he lower following cessation from next Monday of hilling of lamb for export.

TOBRUK FIGHTING

RUGBY, April lb.— Agency war correspondents, describing Monday's fighting ' around Tobruk, which resulted in 22 Axis aircraft being destroyed for the loss of four 11.A.1C machines, idl how all day long bombers, lighters. and dive-bombers cf the B.A.F. . swarmed over the German and Italian columns standing and manonivring in the Tobruk area, destroying vehicles with 'bombs and machine-gun fire. Meanwhile the land forces were busy rounding up prisoners, whose .morale, the correspondents state, was far from good. Many wore on the verge of collapse from fatigue, and the correspondents noted that the Germans had lost 1 their usual

arrogance, some being in tears—nothing unusual for- the Italians, but almost unknown among the

Nazis. Many vehicles coming from Tripoli were disable;! or destroyed, 'and tiie desert tracks are already studded with all 'kinds of military vehicles overturned by bombs or shells.