Word: benghazi
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...Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrust-Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan -were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries...
CAIRO--The British Eighth Army, after hurtling across the Libyan hump in a one-day advance of 66 to 90 miles, converged on Benghazi today in pursuit of Axis armies reported digging in for a desperate stand at El Agheila, 140 miles to the southwest...
Sweeping westward on a wide front, British tanks and infantry yesterday pushed to within 70 miles of Benghazi, main Axis north African supply port east of Tripoli, a communiquo announced. The British were believed advancing on Peughazi from the east and northeast, one column following the coastal road around the Libyan hump and the other striking directly across the desert...
CAIRO--Victorious British Imperial forces rolling across Libya at the rate of 60 miles a day, probably have over-run Derna and are surging westward toward Benghazi, 300 miles from the Egyptian border, desert reports indicated tonight...
Imimi, 38 miles southeast of Derna, fell Saturday and with it the last possible Axis defense line east of Benghazi, however, aerial reports that Axis ships were evacuating Benghazi harbor indicated that German Marshal Erwin Rommel will not halt his fleeing forces cast of the marshes around EI Agheila, 140 miles southwest of Benghazi...