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...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...
...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...
With captured British and U.S. tanks, freshly swastika-daubed, sprinkled among his two German and one Italian armored divisions, Rommel crossed the border south of Sidi Omar, sent one prong northeast through Sidi Barràni, one prong east and one southeast, jabbing at the British covering forces ahead...
...Died. Sidi Ahmed II, 80, Bey of Tunis; in Tunis. An elegant, round little man, bearded, pince-nez'd, for 13 years he was a figurehead ruler of the French protectorate, enjoyed a peaceful "reign" of cooperation with the French, amassed a full treasury, an enviable harem...
...Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, son of the Commandos' organizer, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, and youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...