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After so many evil tidings, the news looked a little better. Germany's Rommel had chased the broken, retreating British 325 miles in eleven days, had rammed his armored spearheads down the coastal desert from Matrûh, taking the flyspeck towns on the railroad to Alexandria like peas ripped from a pod. Now for four days Rommel had not advanced...
...next day Rommel began seeing to it that the remainder of the British Army was not allowed to rest and recoup by retiring. In a week he drove the British from Halfàya Pass, from Sidi Barrani, from Matrûh, from Fuka. Only at El Alamein, 70 short miles from Alexandria, were Rommel's men and tanks so exhausted that he had to pause to reform...
Said he, also, without blushing: "Tobruk went after a single day of fighting, and this entailed withdrawal to Matrŭh, and 120 miles of desert was thus placed between the Eighth Army and its foe. Most authorities imagined that ten days or a fortnight would be gained by this. However, on June 26 [five days later], Rommel presented himself with his armored and motorized forces in front of this new position...
...points), the venerable Dow-Jones industrial averages rose $1.09 while the British were fleeing toward Alexandria, 76? more when Auchinleck began to halt the Rommel rush on Friday. Stocks went up $1.04 the day Hitler captured Sevastopol: 67? in the two days it took his African troops to capture Matr...
...next day Rommel began seeing to it that the remainder of the British Army was not allowed to rest and recoup by retiring. In a week he drove the British from Halfàya Pass, from Sidi Barrani, from Matrûh, from Fuka. Only at El Alamein, 70 short miles from Alexandria, were Rommel's men and tanks so exhausted that he had to pause to reform...