... Rommel's Patrols Retire over a wide front west of Gazala, our fighting patrols again reached several points on the track Tmimi- Mekili, states to-day's Cairo communique. Parties of the enemy, including tanks, were encountered, but tlie general tendency ...

... Reasons For Rommel's Withdrawal General rommel, it would seem, has decided to withdraw the columns with which he advanced recently to some 15 miles west of Gazala, the position from which he started his last thrust in Libya. The columns were certainly ...

... VICHY AID TO ROMMEL QUESTIONS Questions win be asked in the House of Commons about the munitions of war which Vichy France is sending across the Mediterranean to General Rommel, in Libya, ; and it is expected that Mr. Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic ...

... numerous vehicles. NOT TO BE TRAPPED General Rommel will advance only as far as military reasons demand, and not one step further, says the German radio, declaring that Mr. Churchill had attributed to Rommel the intention of capturing the whole of Africa ...

... seaboard, where the opposition was not so great. The enemy is employing greater surface and air strength to guard convoys to Rommel, and although our attacks have been maintained, there is little doubt that considerable reinforcements have grot through. ...

... HUNS CLAIM BARCE Rommel's tank units have occupied Barce and El Abiar, according to tha German communique today. The Italian communique says that enemy troops were attacked in local encounters hy the Italo-German forces, ''which, are advance. It claims ...

... Germans say that strong enemy reconnaissance units have been thrown back. The subject of war supplies of French origin sent to Rommel is bringing a hornet's nest around Vichy ears. Washington has addressed a strong Note to the Vichv Government and is said ...

... Libya forces were stronger than those of the enemy, supply problems were mainly responsible for our inability to follow up Rommel before he could organise a counterstroke. He mentioned the production of a more powerful anti-tank gun, and condemned a malicious ...

... feels, be more appropriate in the Far East. Again, when he is informed that our tanks in Libya have been out-gunned by General Rommel's, it is difficult for him to accept the strategy— stamped though it with high policy—that we must send a great proportion ...

... at Wirksworth, where opened the Week, said that whatever happened we had had smashing victory in Libya, and had prevented Rommel from breaking into Tobruk and possibly Egypt. The battle of the north coast of Africa, he said, was a tremendously important ...

... Defences As regards Singapore, we were told that we could not provide adequate defences for it and at the same time deal with Rommel in' Libya, he -said. Events have shown that we have been unable do either. Even if the battle of ya had given us control ...

... offensive was launched against General Rommel. The ebb and of the tide in this Libyan battle, he said, has bewildered the onlooker. It is natural to inquire, how it is that, having destroyed a large part of Rommel's forces, we are yet compelled to withdraw ...