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Allies Move Back – 2-3
Sofia Raided Twice with ‘Minor’ Damage – 2
The International Situation – 4
Solum is Captured – 4-5
British Ship is Sunk 325 Miles off Brazil – 5
Yugoslavs Smash Drives of Germans – 6-8
Germans Report New ‘Dunkerque’ – 8-9
Tell of Nazis’ Dead Washed Up in Britain – 9
Koritza Retaken, Italians Declare – 9-10
Egypt Weighs Plans to Defend Country – 10
Orders from Berlin as Carried Out in Africa (photos) – 10
The Germans Move In as the Greeks Move Out of Salonika (photos) – 11
The Threat to Suez – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 13-14
Reich General in Norway Gets the London Times – 14

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/apr41/f15apr41.htm

Defenders of Tobruk holding on

Tuesday, April 15, 1941 www.onwar.com

In North Africa... German-Italian attacks on Tobruk are held.

In Washington... Harry Hopkins is appointed to be Roosevelt’s personal representative in charge of running the Lend-Lease program.

In Yugoslavia... The Simovic government flees to Athens.

From London... RAF Coastal Command is brought under the operational control of the Admiralty which will lead to an increase in its effectiveness in the battle against the U-boats.