Word: tobruch
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...take at least several days, perhaps a fortnight, for General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell to organize a counteroffensive with the troops which passed through Alexandria from East Africa to the Egyptian Front. But meanwhile the news from scant forces holding the land front was encouraging. The British garrison at Tobruch was not merely besieged, it was fighting back. The Germans seemed to have forgotten that the British still supplied the garrison from...
...Balkans, after a week of war, Yugoslavia, whose determination to fight had been applauded by the President, was already cut off from her allies. In Africa the British lost the whole of Libya except for the encircled port of Tobruch. In the Atlantic the British still continued slowly to lose the battle of shipping...
...House. Yet even these, dramatically as they brought the U. S. before Europe's millions, were unlike the trip of Wendell Willkie, private citizen traveling at his own expense, into besieged Britain and out again. When he left, 18 days before, the headlines were announcing the fall of Tobruch and the riots in Rumania. When he got back, the British Navy was pounding Genoa (see p. 30), British troops had taken Bengasi, were a third of the way to Tripoli (see p. 36). When he left, debate on the Lend-Lease Bill was growing strident, and there were rumors...
...Sidi Barrani. Salum, Bardia. Tobruch and Derna fell, the fleet immediately used the larger ports to supply the advancing Army, and to drain the area of its flood of prisoners. The efficient way the fleet did this job, contrasted with the crumbling of Italian communications, accounted in large measure for the speed of the campaign...
While they nursed the wounding news of the fall of Tobruch last week, Italians were also upset by stories in the international press of violent disaffection in Milan, Turin, Trieste, other crowded cities of the industrial North. Emanating mostly from Belgrade, the reports claimed that three unnamed Italian generals had been assassinated, Trieste women had rioted in a breadline, Lloyd Triestino shipyard workers had struck and angrily burlesqued Il Duce, a mob with knives and pistols had attacked Nazi officers in Milan...