The most advanced British patrols were believed to have penetrated nearly 100 miles into Libya, It is calculated that the British have sliced 5,000 square miles from Il Duce's yebullt Roman Empire In their drive during the past month. sweep into Libya has obtained dozens of new acrodromes enabling them to operate from short distances from their objectives. There is.a trail of wreckage of Italian planes every aerodrome between Bardia and Tobruk. The air field at Eladein, 15 miles south of Tobruk, contamea 68 abandoned Italian machines, most wrecked or burned out.
Cotinting the planes destroyed captured Bardia and other stations Fremler Mussolini must have another 100 planes, which explains the absence of the Italians from the sky—United Press.
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