HEAVY AIR ATTACKS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 5

HEAVY AIR ATTACKS

Allied Activity In Egypt SUPPLIES STREAMING IN (Received August 12, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. The Eighth Army is being steadily strengthened by supplies and reinforcements arriving from the Suez Canal zone, reports the. Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph.” Suez itself is prepared to handle twice the volume of supplies that arrived three months ago. Reuter’s correspondent says a feature of the fighting on the El Alamein front in the last fortnight has been the duels between British artillery—our 25-pouuders captured by Rommel are now turned against us. British gunners at Ruweisat Ridge claim that we are getting the bolter of the duels. They say our tiro has forced at least two enemy batteries from their desert holes, whereas we have not shifted our position once. Heavy Allied air attacks arc again beginning to overshadow the artillery d ucls.