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GERMANS HALTED NEAR SOLLUM NO ATTEMPT TO PUSH ON (Rec. 2 a.m.) LONDON, May 29. The latest German bid to invade Egypt has been halted along a fluid line reaching from a couple of miles on the Egyptian side of Solium to a point in the desert 30 miles southward. The Germans have not attempted to push on. The indications are that they do not intend to do more than to try to consolidate the positions they have regained. SURVIVOR FROM HOOD Six hours after receiving the Admiralty’s telegram announcing that her 21-year-old son, Able Seaman Robert Tilburn, of Leeds, had been lost in the Hood, his mother received her son’s telegram from Reyjavik: “I am safe. Writing.” This is the first news of any Hood survivor.
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Southland Times, Issue 24448, 30 May 1941, Page 5
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129LATE NEWS Southland Times, Issue 24448, 30 May 1941, Page 5
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