LIBYAN CAMPAIGN
GERMANY’S DIFFICULTIES ITAUANS WAR-WEARY (Rec. 11.15 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 13. The Daily Telegraph says: “ Germany has good cause fbr apprehension regarding the position in Libya. Dysentery, sun blindness, and other sickness are taking toll of the German troops, and the Italian troops have lost their fighting spirit. The R.A.F. and the navy increasingly hamper the supplying of Axis forces in Africa, apart from the necessity of reinforcing them with armoured vehicles from Europe. * Germany is well aware also that if warweary Italy wanted a separate peace she would appeal to the Allies for military protection, and if the British previously swept the Italians and Germans from Libya and Tripolitania new possibilities would open. Germany would certainly like to know whether the Russians’ demand for war material has deferred the moment when the Army of the Nile can strike, but this army is very strong and can operate independently of aid sent to stiffen the Russian southern front.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 5
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