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DRAGOONS SPRING SURPRISE ON ROMMEL MEN AT MSUS

... DRAGOONS SPRING SURPRISE ON ROMMEL MEN AT MSUS audacious raid by a British ground patrol in Libya is reported in yesterday’s Army communique. Referred to as of the Royals —the Royal Dragoons, former cavalry regfhient, now mechanised—the patrol penetrated ...

Published: Monday 23 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 532 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

General Rommel (left) and Major the Rev. Bach (centre; since captured by the Eighth Army at Halfaya Pass). A ..

... General Rommel (left) and Major the Rev. Bach (centre; since captured by the Eighth Army at Halfaya Pass). A photograph taken from an enemy prisoner in Libya. LOSS ON CARROTS EFFECT OF PRESENT RETAIL PRICE Mr. W. P. Spens, K.C., M.P., chairman of the ...

Published: Monday 23 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 254 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHANGES

... taken the greatest trouble to give (Continued on Back Page) Allies Do Not Know Rommel’s Intentions ~Says Berlin The Allies will only get to know something of General Rommel’s intentions %hen the latter thinks it convenient. By that time, however, the Germans ...

Published: Tuesday 24 February 1942
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 874 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LIBYA POSITION ENEMY MOVE IN COASTAL REGION SLIGHT ADVANCE

... SLIGHT ADVANCE Thera has been more enemy movement in Libya, it was stated in authoritative quarters in London to-day, and Rommel’s forces have advanced slightly in the coastal region. There has also been continued patrol activity, but no clash has taken ...

Published: Tuesday 24 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRISONER'S “TREASURE

... PRISONER'S “TREASURE A photo found on an Axis prisoner in Libya of General Rommel (left) and Major the Rev. Bach, snapped in the desert. Bach was captured at Halfaya Pass, where he was the commander of the Axis forces when the garrison was compelled ...

Published: Monday 23 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JAPANS WANING COMMAND

... should be sacked. Instead of degrading such civil servants, they weie often promoted Rommel aims The Official German News Acency makes this announcement: Up new General Rommel has not made any statement either about objectives of his further operations or ...

Published: Tuesday 24 February 1942
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 955 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WalsalT M.P.’s Criticism

... They were beginning to doubt it. They were told at the beginning we were meeting the enemy in Libya on equal terms. Then came Rommel’s recovery and the discovery that the Germans had higher calibre guns. That was a shock to public opinion. Again, how many ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Stockholm Reports

... on the Aunus Isthmus. Three Russian columns are said to have been wiped out in an attempt to penetrate frontline positions. ROMMEL’S PATROLS WITHDRAW INCREASE IN AIR ACTIVITY Yesterday’s Middle East war communique said that on Monday our fighting patrols ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 670 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SABOTAGE IN FRANCE

... every important city along the west coast as well as of the Gatun locks, on the Panama Canal.— Reuter. REINFORCEMENTS FOR ROMMEL SMALL CONVOY ARRIVES AT TRIPOLI Cairo, February 27 It seems that the Axis succeeded running another convoy to Tripoli a few ...

Published: Saturday 28 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 306 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Increasing Concern

... the British Ministry of Economic Warfare published details of war material with which Vichy France was supplying General Rommel. Admiral Leahy immediately called attention to this flagrant act of un-neutrality and reported to his Government. Vichy has ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 295 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The appointment oT Sir James Grigg to take charge of the War Office is the big surprise of the list of new ..

... stronger resistance by the enemy to our mobile columns, which are operating over a wide area, while con- siderable movement of Rommel’s forces was observed. The communique says: “Operating in the general area east of Thimi and south of the Tmimi-Mekili aract ...

Published: Monday 23 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 342 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

time for hard decisions HITLER PREPARES THE DECISIVE PHASE ALLIES MUST CONCENTRATE ON CERMAN DEFEAT the full ..

... strong positions in North Africa Here again have a battle of supplies We advance we withdraw we advance again and Rommel retreats Rommel advances and we retreat So it goes on each side advancing till it reaches the farthest limits of its supply organisation ...

Published: Sunday 22 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1554 | Page: 5 | Tags: none