... KEEPING IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH ROMMEL Operating over wide front West of Gazala our fighting patrols again reached several points on the track Tmimi- Mekili,” says to-day's Middle East communique from Cairo. Parties of enemy, including tanks, were encountered ...

... military contact with our European allies. Ambitious certainly, but let no one say it can't happen. In the Desert of Cyrenaica Rommel is doing his utmost to maintain the threat to the Nile Valley. Supply problems are holding up any decisive action in this ...

... continued their advance. The Germans counterattacked, but were repulsed with heavy losses. Our aircraft were again active against Rommel's forces and the Cairo communique told of a 20 —0 victory for our planes. Mr. Churchill broadcast an appeal to all men and ...

... Charter might not mean their inclusion in its provisions. In the Middle East events were not very comforting, said Mrs Cruchley. Rommel's surprise attack had caused a certain amount of despondency in the country. It was vital for us to control the Mediterranean ...

... is not known tact. The Germans are suffering newspaper, expresses con- pressure had been brought to ;.- this was one of the Rommel Avoids Fight This is revealed in to-day's tremendous losses in the south- fidence that the German spring bear on him from ...

... LULL CONTINUES IN . LIBYA Advance Useless to Rommel Unless He Can Pass Tobruk Reuler Correspondent a Prisoner SOUTH AFRICAN SOLDIERS [ From CHRISTOPHER BU 6 KLEV , Our Special Correspondent ] Cairo , Friday . —There appears to be no likelihood of any ...

... Tomahawks, which failed to step into the breach when Rommel's six-pounder tank guns proved too much for Britain's two-pounders. With continuous air superiority. the fighter pilots, after many weeks, found Rommel'etanks still there. It Is, in fact, clear that ...

... ROMMEL WAITS Enemy Strength Round Mekili Cairo Saturday. The Middle East communique Is as follows: Operating over wide front west Qazala. our fighting patrols again reached several points on the track Tmimi-Meklli. Parties of enemy. Including tanks ...

... low-flying aircraft after Fort Capuzzo had fallen to General Ritchie's Eighth Army during the present campaign against General Rommel and his Italian partners In Libya. Many times has Capuzzo changed hands many times has it withstood bombardment from the land ...

... Bali, sank one large transport, and obtained direct hits on enemy cruisers and destroyers. One cruiser which received two Rommel Sticks Libya Patrols But No Great Movement There have been no further developments in Libya, according to authoritative i ...

... the Germans will assail the ships on these waters with all they have got, and that includes the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Rommel in Libya is receiving strong reinforcements. Our Auchinleck must get them too. Now, with the Japanese eruption into all the ...

... unexpected—the tank known as the Mark IV., the armour of which otieguns could not pierce. That was one of the reasons for Rommel's apparent success in the counter attack. We would find an antidote against the Mark IV. tank just as we had found a remedy ...