LONDON--The "war of oil" spread over larger areas of Iraq today after a breakdown of neutral peace feelers when British bombers blasted destructively at Iraqi military positions and weakened the five-day-old siege of Habbaniya air base.
Axis reports said that 3,000 British troops within the besieged base on the Euphrates, including Australians, were completely encircled but that the Iraqi forces were unable to storm Habbaniya because it is surrounded by barricades of high tension wires.
Iraqi artillery, these reports said, is constantly shelling the base in an effort to destroy its power house, which provides electricity for the wire barricades.
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