AFRICAN FRONT
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY
PATROLS ON ALERT
(Roe. 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY, July 20. A communique issued by Cairo Headquarters states that, apart from artillery activity on both sides, there is nothing important to report from the Tobruk area in North Africa. 1 In the frontier area our patrols liave succeeded in recovering and towing in enemy armoured cars which were damaged in the action reported yesterday. 111 Abyssinia there is nothing to
report. . Our occupation of the northern area of Syria is continuing smoothly. The Vichy forces are being transferred to the neutral zone at Tripoli, though thousands still remain in Aleppo. — Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 21 July 1941, Page 4
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