ITALIAN FORCE WIPED OUT
ACTION AT TOBRUK ENEMY ALLOWED TO APPROACH CLOSE Rugby, Aug. 11. A communique issued from Cairo headquarters says:— Duri: g the night of August 9-10, Italian troops delivered an attack against one of our posts on the outer perimeter of the defences at Tobruk. The attackers were allowed to approach within 300 yards, when they were killed almost to a man by heavy defensive tire from our artillery and machine-guns. In the frontier areas yesterday our patrols successfully engaged patrols of hostile armoured fighting vehicles, wh ch were subsequently forced to withdraw by the accuracy of our artillery fire. —U.P.A.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19410813.2.71
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 189, 13 August 1941, Page 6
Word Count
104ITALIAN FORCE WIPED OUT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 189, 13 August 1941, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. 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 NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in