CIRCLE HOLDS

Evening Star, Issue 24056, 1 December 1941, Page 7

CIRCLE HOLDS

GERMANS FAIL TO BREAK THROUGH SITUATION REGARDED AS ENCOURAGING REMAINING AXIS TANKS ENGAGED (Kec. 13.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 30. The situation in Libya can be regarded as distinctly hopeful and encouraging, said the military spokesman m Cairo, The Germans have failed tp penetrate the British infantry positions on any front. The enemy’s entire remaining tank strength was launched in his latest attack. These tanks were supported by armoured cars and innumerable motor transports- Our field guns and anti-tank guns bore the brunt of the attack until our armoured formations rushed up, charged the Axis flank and prevented an advance. Our infantry attacks against the infantry in the rear of the "panzers are also mentioned in to-day’s communique as “ quite successful.” The spokesman added: “ Wc are sticking to our objective of hunting their tanks wherever they are, and until we have destroyed the last tank we won’t think of anything else.” • The new battle whichhas developed in Cyrenaica is continuing, but it is stated to be stabilising, according to an agency message from Cairo. The attempt of the enemy armoured troops to break through to the westward by penetrating the positions of the British infantry has so far failed, and the situation is regarded as satisfactory. It is mainly an infantry battle, with tanks supporting both sides. All the remaining Axis tanks are engaged. Resides the commander of the German 21st Armoured Division taken east of Tobruk, a large number of other prisoners, including members of both panzer divisions, are stated to have been taken. In the frontier area the Indians are mopping up the remnants of the Axis forces. GERMANS MASSING GUNS ATTEMPT TO CHECK CORRIDOR WIDENING (Bee, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 30. A military spokesman at Cairo said the Germans had massed guns with the object of opposing any further widening of the Tobruk corridor. THE BRITISH FORCES SEVENTY PER CENT. FROM HOMELAND (Kec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 30. The Minister of Information (Mr Brendan Bracken), in a speech at Oxford, revealed that 70 per cent, of the forces in Libya were from Great Britain.