LIBYAN BATTLE
GERMANS HOLO INITIATIVE
VIEW IN LONDON.
SPECULATION ABOUT ROMMEL'S MOVE. W (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) RUGBY. January 26. That the initiative in the Libyan campaign has temporarily passed to Germany is the view authoritatively held in London in the light of present events. What is still in doubt is whether General Rommel’s new attack is a tremendous raid undertaken to do us as much damage as possible and upset preparations for our own offensive or is a full-scale counter-offensive. Fighting is now on a big scale and has spread further to the north and east. General Rommel has moved his forces about 150 miles from El Agheila in four days. ITALIAN REPORT ARRIVAL OF IMPORTANT CONVOY. LOSS OF TRANSPORT ADMITTED. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 26. An Italian communique says: ‘"Another important convoy has arrived in Libya, despite violent and repeated enemy attacks. A troopship was sunk but almost all the troops were transferred to escorting destroyers which arrived at their destination. One of our submarines has failed to return.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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