CAUGHT NAPPING
GERMANS AT AGEDABIA
OVERWHELMED BY SWIFT ADVANCE. HURRIED AND COSTLY RETREAT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, November 26. An account of the capture of Agcdabia, which has reached London in delayed messages from correspondents, says the Germans clearly planned to hold the town at least for some days, but. according to prisoners' statements, the speed of our advance surprised them. They had mined the area and thrown a strong anlai-tank gun screen around the town, with about twelve tanks behind the screen, and also an armoured car force. Our Sherman tanks and 25-pounders quickly got into position, and a furious gun duel raged all day until darkness, when the enemy began to fall back, leaving a train of wrecked vehicles and bodies along the desert road. Our advance elements are now harrying the German rearguards, who are withdrawing rapidly towards Marasbrega, 24 miles from El Agheila, and the beginning of the El Agheila defences. The Allied tanks which took part in the Agedabia operation had advanced 600 miles in thirteen days.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19421127.2.40
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1942, Page 4
Word Count
177CAUGHT NAPPING Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1942, Page 4
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.