Strong British Forces Take Up Favourable Positions; Complete Air Superiority 7 Cairo, Apr, 16.
situation in Libya is now stabilized although fighting is still going on, This is indicated by news from Libya, well-informed quarters state. Strong British forces have taken up positions to give battle in a most favourable strategic area and there is no need for anxiety, German prisoners state that they were without food or water for two days and could no longer carry out instructions to push on as fast as possible. With the British Air Force holding complete superiority in the air and continually bombing German supply columns the cohesion of German forward units is becoming ragged, German dive-bombers are neither a match for British "Hurricanes nor for British ground troops, who hold their fire until the lowe flying planes become targets that can hardly be missed. German casualties in vehicles are increasing hourly with incessant destructive bombing by the RAF.
Small British patrols have made continual sorties from Tobrule hight capturing numbers of Germans and pricking the left flank of German columns advancing to the Egyptian border. As a result the Ger-_ mang launched two attacks against the fortress yesterday" but were Mung back with heavy losses.
These defences were constructed to halt the threatened Italian advance last autumn. They remain intact and stronger than ever, Troops return Ing from the desert to re-equip are fu the bigest spirits. Optimism is the keynote of their descriptions of the situation which is becoming more stable each day as British forces con
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