Cairo, May 4.
A considerable German force participated in Friday's abortive attack against the outer defences in the south-west sector of Tobruk, according to the latest reports received in well-informed circles here. The fighting is described as fairly tough, but the position at the close of the day's engagement was left more or less the same, Persistent enemy efforts to beale through the defences are regarded as proof of the measure of incon Venlence which the British hold on Tobruk is causing him.
A raid by a British mechanized column on the Sollum area is described asa wide, sweeping movement on the model of those which preceded the capture of Tobruk in Decem-
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