Skilful and Brilliant Episode
FROM DEFENCE TO ATTACK (British Official Wireless.) Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 14. The progress of the Axis which had been brought to a halt at Taranto and on the Greek frontier is definitely stayed and turned. This was the opinion expressed by Brigadier-General Lord Croft, Parliamentary Under-i Secretary for War, commenting on the Battle of the Western Desert to-day. “Prudence in the face of a numerically superior enemy,” said General Croft, “might have dictated static defence by General Wavell in Egypt. The irresistible urge to get at the Italians ourselves and assist Greece in an instant light, however, impelled our commander-in-chief to reverse the roles and himself attack his entrenched and fortified adversary. The operation of the bust few days was one of the most skilful and brilliant episodes of the great story of the British Armv. ”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 307, 16 December 1940, Page 7
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