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h * TENTH ARMY ON GUARD )- (Recd. 7.30 p.m.) London, May II n Strategists in Cairo are taking a< count of the possibility that shoul the Germans succeed in their preser thrusts they will use Caucasus an ? Black Sea ports as bases for buildin i- up armies for the southern drive, -- the Sunday Times. The Tenth Arm d for long months has been on guarc e Present events have increased thei ■ vigilance. Men realise, as the battl ■- sways in the north, that their import t ance increases daily—both as th >t guardians of the vital oil supplies o 11 the United Nations and the protector ■t of Russia’s lifeline with the Persia Gulf.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 5
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