ANNOUNCEMENT PREMATURE
t BRITISH LISTENING POST OVERRUN } GARRISON FOUND INTACT , 1 '■Lee., 11.10 a.m.; Rugby. 0c... 28. now received show that the „ announcement in yesterday’s Cairo "'communique that an observation post had been overrun by a strong enemy .■ d« tachment • war, premature. Later '. facts are disclosed in to-day's com \ munique which states: “Owing to bad 'visibility our patrols at Tobruk ye.-'.er- , day mistook the location of our listen Ljing post which was believed to have 3 ; been overrun during Friday night. 1 i Yesterday the listening post with its j i garrison was found to be intact, the small party of British and other ranks {having successfully beaten off an attack Iby numerically superior enemy forces. “Yesterday in the frontier area without interference from the enemv." J —B.O. W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 5
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