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PLIGHT OF ENEMY TROOPS
(Rec. 2.10 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 26. The plight of the Axis troops cut off as a result of the New Zealand push must now be serious. If the New Zealanders retain their positions Solium and Halfaya must shortly fall like ripe fruit. The Daily Express says it is reported from Kuibyshev that the Germans have been compelled to withdraw considerable air forces from the Russian front for Libya. Illustrating the confused nature of the desert tank fighting, The Times special correspondent in Libya tells how formations of American tanks with a brigade headquarters and a supply column were suddenly attacked nearS idi Rezegh aerodrome by 80 German tanks. When they were spotted the German tanks were mistaken for British. The first warning of the attack came from tracer shells and bullets flying among the headquarters’ trucks. An officer signalled the transport to scatter, which it did through a hail of artillery and tank shells and machine-gun bullets from the supporting German infantry. Most of the transport got away safely, leaving the artillery and tanks to fight the Germans until dark.
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Southland Times, Issue 24603, 27 November 1941, Page 5
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