The South African Outlook
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1943
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University of Fort Hare
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We go to press this month too early for our brief record of the course, the war to have any value on January 1st. We can, however, record that Rommel's army is once again on the retreat and our Middle East Anny is for the first time, in this war operating west of El Agheila. Some hundreds of miles of weary desert road still have to be covered before our forces reach the important enemy port of Tripoli, but this and the joining up of our forces in the Middle East and Tunisia is our declared objective. North African air bases are now being used for the bombing of Italian ports and industrial centres. General Smuts has declared his intention to ask Parliament for powers to send volunteer expeditionary forces out of Africa. To use his own words, "we shall go to Italy to fetch our prisoners back". How good it will he to see them again.