New York, June 26, Mr. Jan Yindrich, United Press correspondent who reported exclu= sively on the siege of Tobruk from Tiside the beleaguered fortress, a rived from Lisbon by Clipper plane Fast night to receive the" National Headlines Club's annual award for his! stories, He will be presented on Saturday, with the annual plaque. for outstanding achievements in reporting. on Important events.
Mr, Yindrich was the only Ameri. can correspondent inside Tobruk and his vivid: word-pictures of Axis tempis to capture tha fortress in Libya were prominently featured by newspapers. all over the world, "Tobruk has held out for 18 days Mr, indi said on his arita tst ight, "Uiless it falls, Tam unable to see how the Axis panzer divisions can make much progress in Egypt.
indications when T left were that it would continue to hold out and threaten German lines of com= munleations,"—United Press,
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