ROMMEL’S SUCCESS
SECOND EDITION
IMPUTED TO NEW AMMUNITION GERMAN PUBLIC WARNED. HOT WEATHER FAVOURS DEFENDERS. (Received 10.46 a.ra.) United Press Assn.- —By Electric Telegraph. —CoPvnght. LONDON June 22. Tlie Volkischer Beobacliter commenting on the fall of Tobruk said that those who had heard of the strength of Tobruk’s defences doubtless reckoned with a longer siege. The fact that Rommel’s desert troops took it by assault at the first blow without big artillery preparations is a surprising achievement deserving of the highest admiration. A Cano Headquarters communique states that our mobile forces were 1 in contact with an enemy column on Sunday near Sidi Azoiz. about J 2 miles northwestward of Port C'apuzzo. There is no further news from Tobruk which must be presumed as fallen:. A Stockholm message -from Berlin states that it is generally believed m German circles that new and more effective ammunition contributed to Rommel’s early success. The Germ an public are being warned that the hot season will probably favour the defence of Egypt.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15076, 23 June 1942, Page 3
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