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SUBMARINE SUCCESSES

... whether Rommel is yet in a state to attack again in Libya, but it looks as though he were working up to it. Neither side is likely just to sit down and wait for the other to attack if they can help it Although there has been some mention of Rommel digging ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

20-0 Battering Checks Rommel

... 20-0 Battering Checks Rommel almost wiping out a diveoombtng formation sent blast the way for Axis land forces, R.A.F. and Australian airmen may have delayed Rommel's plans for a renewed drive in Libya. Sicilian airllelils liavo again been bombed. Onr ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Worst Blow We Have Suffered in the War

... Saturday they IBYA is baffling rather than dis- and unified direction to Allied appeared still to hold the reser- 1.4 couraging. Rommel cannot be strategy. voirs, to have interrupted the content with the present position. The rest is for us, all of us, who passage ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2891 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ROMMEL MAY ATTACK SOON

... ROMMEL MAY ATTACK SOON “WORKING UP TO IT,” SAYS LONDON Fighter Aircraft Score Brilliant Victory ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 15 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ri i 4 - LENTEN MESSAGES R.A.F.. SUCCESS DUBLIN AND f til • • lage Campaign IN LIBY DISTRICT FIXED

... Twomey said the shortage of • words to His Apostlea. cave power men, and we appncieted it deeply. Further blows at General Rommel% to offer the Hot:. Sacrifice and tosupplies were struck and one .so serious as to be 401.1 forgive sins. lIIHE outlook is ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 13998 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Reports so tar received about the action in the Palembang area of Sumatra on February 14 and 15 show that

... rising on another big flare-up in Libya. The main forces have not yet clashed, but the Germans have pressed slightly eastwards. Rommel’s Forces Again Active. Yesterday’s communique from British G.H.Q., Cairo, stated: Throughout Sunday enemy columns containing ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 819 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RUSSIA’S BORDERS

... time being. As previously indicated, the United States Government is satisfied that no American supplies have been handed to Rommel, and It therefore has reason, it is said, modify the existing commercial agreement for the supply of food and other commodities ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SWEEP BY TROOPS IN LIBYA

... operated over a wide area south of the general line Tmimi-Mekili without encountering any opposition. MYSTERY OF General Rommel, it would seem (says Reuter), has decided to withdraw the columns with which he advanced recently to some 15 or 20 miles west ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Discussing the slowing down of Rommel’s advance. The Times special correspondent writes from Cairo;—Against an ..

... Discussing the slowing down of Rommel’s advance. The Times special correspondent writes from Cairo;—Against an astute general like Rommel it would be unwise to draw hasty conclusions from the immediate movements of his troops. As we have had occasion ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SUPPLY PROBLEMS?

... further development in Libya, according to authoritative quarters in London. Patrol work goes on, but there Is no evidence that Rommel has been able to continue hia advance. Cairo G.H.Q. reports:—“ Our mobile columns and fighting patrols were active throughout ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A FRENCH DENIAL

... A FRENCH DENIAL VICHY Tuesday.—De Brlnon, Vichy Envoy in Paris, denied that Rommel had received supplies by way of French North Africa. About the recent demarches made by Admiral Leahy, American Ambassador in Vichy, on the subject, De Brinon declared ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 5 | Tags: none