The German threat to Egypt and Suez last week became immediate and serious.
With apparent ease, the large and evergrowing German force on the Libyan border pushed the British out of Salûm and about five miles into Egypt's land. Then it paused. The British admitted that the pause was none of their doing: they had withdrawn, and had merely maintained light mechanized patrols touching the Axis advance, to keep tabs.
Tobruch, lying on the flank of Axis communications across the Libyan desert, had been held by a small British garrison ever since the initial German drive. Before the Axis attack on Egypt...
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