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Show CAPTURE ITALIANS' RAIL BASE - sy si 1 coin? vr"1 LIBYA " 'fxZ'l.J'' EGYPTi, SAUDI ARABIA . fl&of0 ill V ? i ANGLO YPTIANV I 2 J i f'-V. ( ! i A A -a J $8$ v " With the British capture of AGORDAT (No. 3), the all-important railroad base of Italian supplies was cut off at MAS-SAUA. MAS-SAUA. the only good Italian port on the Red Sea. British troops some 2,000 miles northwest were concentrating their devasting attack at-tack on BENGAZI, in Italian East Africa (No. 2), while one of the greatest feats in the"pre-sent the"pre-sent war has been the treek of "Free French" forces traveling by camel, trucks, on foot to strike at MURZUK (No. 1), a distance of 825 miles, thus putting the Italian forces under an attack from an entirely different direction. |