WAR CORRESPONDENTS
GIVEN GOOD OPPORTUNITIES IN LIBYA ATTACHED TO BATTLE FORMATIONS. SOME FALL INTO ENEMY HANDS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 5. The War Office has issued an account of the organisation of Press correspondents and photographers to report and picture the successive stages of the Libyan offensive. They were well forward before the battle began. They were sent up in driblets so that no comment should be aroused by any mass exodus from Cairo, and were split into small parties and attached to various formations on the day before the battle. They could not be told what was the zero day or zero hour, but intelligent anticipation by the officers responsible got them to the right places in good time. The arrangements were subjected to a severe test as the battle developed. For days it was a confused affair of thrust and counter-thrust. During the latter many correspondents had narrow escapes from capture. Some were actually made prisoners.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1942, Page 5
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