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...summaries: Salum (W) defeated A. Foster (H) 3-2; Wightman (H) defeated Capney (W) 3-1; Stevens (H) defeated Stillman (W) 3-0; Heath (H) defeated Newberry (W) 3-1; McGovern (H) defeated Lutz (W) 3_1; McKittrick (H) defeated Conin (W) 3-0; H. Foster (H) defeated Travis (W) 3-0; Vila (W) defeated Emerson (H) 3-1; Mead (H) defeated Gregory...
...Then the British took Salum...
With this, the largest Axis pocket, cleaned out, the British went to work on two smaller pockets: Halfaya Pass and Salum. If these could be taken quickly, there was a fair chance that Ritchie would still have time to do battle with Rommel at Agedabia before Axis reinforcements arrived...
...much of their successes-a naval assault on Tripoli in which the town was given a thorough shellacking, a few raids out of Tobruch against Axis supply lines, a seaborne raid near Bardia in which a bridge was said to have been blown up, a few tank patrols near Salum. And they minimized the decision of the Duke of Aosta, commanding Italian forces in East Africa, not to capitulate-which would mean further delay in moving forces to threatened Egypt. But the pause was poisoned for many Britons by the thought that the Germans might not stick to the coastal...
...Sidi Barrani. Salum, Bardia. Tobruch and Derna fell, the fleet immediately used the larger ports to supply the advancing Army, and to drain the area of its flood of prisoners. The efficient way the fleet did this job, contrasted with the crumbling of Italian communications, accounted in large measure for the speed of the campaign...