SHELLING OF TOBRUK
INTENSIFIED FORCE FLYING COLUMNS FURTHER WESTWARD
Received Jan. 12, 7.5 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 11. The British United Press correspondent with the British forces says the shelling of Tobruk was intensified in the last 24 hours. Fresh artillery units have gone into action. Flying columns which cut off the road between Tobruk and Derna are now opertign further to the westward, toward Benghazi. Practically all the prisoners taken in Bardia are white.
ARTILLERY DUEL STILL CONTINUES
BRITISH ASSAULT ON TOBRUK Received Jan. 12, 11.35 p.m. LONDON. Jan. 12. The artillery duel continues at Tobruk, where the British are still bringing up new guns and other equipment. R.A.F. fighters patrol constantly over the supply lines and also west of Tobruk but there is little Italian air activity. Marshal Graziani shows no signs of attempting to relieve the Tobruk garrison.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 5
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