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BATTLE FOR HALFAYA AXIS FORCES BOTTLED UP. NUMBERING 7,000 OR MORE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, January 5. An agency correspondent in Cairo says that with Bardia captured, the battle for Halfaya has now started. This indeed is implied in this afternoon’s Cairo communique. The correspondent adds that at Halfaya the Axis forces, including many Germans, are strongly entrenched. The number of Italian and German troops, holding this last island of resistance in Eastern Cyrenaica is about the same as in Bardia (between 7,000 and 8,000). According to the number of prisoners taken at Bardia, the percentage of Germans at Halfaya is higher than at Bardia, which was roughly in the ratio of six Italians to one German.
GENERAL ROMMEL IN HOSPITAL IN GERMANY. ACCORDING TO CURRENT REPORTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON. January 5. A British United Press correspondent on the German frontier says reports from reliable quarters are circulating in Germany and on the German frontier to the effect that General Rommel returned to Germany from Libya some weeks ago and is now lying ill with blackwater fever.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1942, Page 6
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