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...came last week Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's tactical units were still waiting to do final battle with General Erwin Rommel's force. At Agedabia, where Rommel is hanging on, both sides maneuvered and skirmished like fighting cocks. In an attempt to break Ritchie's grip, Rommel sent a tank unit against the British. The British tanks met the German spearhead, claimed the destruction of 22 of Rommel's prized tanks, the damage of 20 others. British Hussars mopped up five truckloads of German infantry after the scrap. But the Axis boasted the destruction...
LONDON--Russian troops have recaptured 200 villages in the Rostov area, thrown the Germans back six miles west from Tagaurog and opened a thundering artillery barrage near Kharkov in a general southern front offensive that may compel the Germans to release their tightening grip on Moscow and send help there, Russian dispatches reported today...
...Apathy and pessimism grip the people. . . . They pray for some miracle that may bring them peace early. Large sections of the people don't care what kind of a peace it is, and many are far more afraid of a German victory than a British. . . . The people seem now a people peculiarly devoid of a capacity for hatred of anyone...
...They are an individualistic people which a generation of Fascism has been unable to regiment. . . . They know they are in the grip of a tyranny. Some few like it and get fat on it. Most of them seem to accept it with a grumbling resignation, and the capacity for revolt does not appear to be, at present, in them...
...when the war ended, Patton had little more than a nuisance grip. South of the town, the Blues' main body was still 25 miles away. The Blues' armored troops were just getting ready to cross the Sabine. And Ben Lear still had in reserve a powerful slug: the Sixth Infantry Division, and the bulk of his armored troops...