COUNTER-ATTACK BY AUSTRALIANS
ACTION AT TOBRUK GERMAN POSITIONS RECAPTURED WAY PREPARED BY ARTILLERY ißecd. 7.30 p.m.) London. May 12. Australian infantry at Tobruk, in a moonlight, counter-attack, recaptured several strong points from the Germans. The counter-attack lasted from midnight until the early hours of the morning. The Germans used flamethrowers in an attempt to fight off the advancing infantry. The Australians. despite a hail of machine-gun bullets and shellfire from three directions, succeeded in narrowing the German salient and inflicted heavy casualties.
The force holding the salient was previously heavily pounded by artillery. which blasted numerous German tanks and lorries, the wreckage of which was strewn on the battlefield.
German planes have raided Tobruk 667 times between April 9 and April 30.—U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 110, 13 May 1941, Page 5
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