PATROLS AT TOBRUK.
OPERATIONS IN DAYLIGHT. (Ret-. 10.22 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 1. A communique issued by Cairo headquarters states that our patrols at Tobruk again penetrated deeply into enemy lines on Wednesday night. Contact with the enemy was not made, but all the patrols procured valuable information. A daylight patrol, operating yesterday with great skill, stalked and captured a prisoner, thereby securing the identification for which it had been dispatched. In the frontier area our artillery engaged and inflicted casualties upon working parties and mechanical transport about lla>li'ava (Hellfiro) I'ass.— Official Wireless. "
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 7
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