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CAIRO--Victorious British Imperial forces rolling across Libya at the rate of 60 miles a day, probably have over-run Derna and are surging westward toward Benghazi, 300 miles from the Egyptian border, desert reports indicated tonight...
Imimi, 38 miles southeast of Derna, fell Saturday and with it the last possible Axis defense line east of Benghazi, however, aerial reports that Axis ships were evacuating Benghazi harbor indicated that German Marshal Erwin Rommel will not halt his fleeing forces cast of the marshes around EI Agheila, 140 miles southwest of Benghazi...
Thrice before, the Axis had struck eastward across North Africa, twice before the British had counter-driven to the west. Now for the fourth time the Axis attacked. From tank parks south of Derna, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Nazis' smartest desert general, sent his divisions toward the Allied post at Bir Hacheim south of Tobruk. While Italian tanks made a holding attack on the post and were beaten off by Free French defenders with a loss of 35 Axis machines, 250 German tanks made an end run clear around Bir Hacheim, veered north toward the coast and Tobruk...
...Advanced as far as Derna and were stopped...
Pressing their advantage, the Field Marshal's troops began to move eastward and northward through the mountains towards Cyrene and Derna on the hump of Cyrenaica. By the weekend they had covered more than half the distance to Derna...