The Archive · 1941

Vast Coastal Plateau Now Under British Occupation

French Military Experts Believe Benghazi Battle — Planned on Lines Followed at Sidi Barrani, Sollum

Vichy, Feb, 8.

CEN on the fall of Benghazi, French military observers po out that-no fewer than tort out of the 15 Italian divisions shave been destroyed; while the Italians have lost a huge gaunt -of war material in their rout.

sè observers believed that-the-British capture of Benghazi Practically a repetition, as far as military tactics were con-of their success last month in the Sidi Barrani ard Sollum regions.

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