While British Imperial Forces were learrying all before them in their drive slong the Libyan coast, Free French troops, it is learned, carried out a daring and successful raid on a strategically important group of oases:
the heart of the Libyan Desert, In the middle of January, a still free French force, drawn from crack camel corps and equipped also with mechanized transport: which secretly had assembled behind the frontier of French Equatorial Africa, began a 300 "mile journey across desert wastes.
They were moving up for an attack on Murzuk, the capital of the oases Fezzan which the Italians were Using as an alr base to keep watch over free French territories in Equatorial Africa.
Travelling nearly 100 miles a day, the French force escaped observation from the alr and took the Ttalian gar-risen completely by surprise.
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