Word: benghazi
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...blame of his defeat on a shortage of tanks. While Graziani worked desperately to reform his Army, the British surrounded Bardia with artillery and infantry. The R. A. F., ranging even more widely, rained bombs on Tobruch. Derna, even on the main Italian air bases across Libya at Benina, Benghazi, Castel Benito. Graziani had some 200,000 men left and possibly-just possibly-he was lying back to let the British extend themselves into Libya...
...French press saw, likewise, the hand of Dictator Mussolini in attacks by Fascists mobs, last week, upon the French consulates at Tripoli and Benghazi in Italian Tripolitania. Though the Italian Foreign Office "apologized," the impression lingered that Fascists are being roused to a fighting mood against France, represented as the fertile republican ground upon which plots are hatched against Fascism...