TRAINS BURIED BY SANDSTORM
N.Z.E.F. Ot-'FictAi. News Seuvice. ITALY, April 5. New Zealanders in Italy who have sighed for Egypt's constant sunshine while mentally excluding the equally constant dust have reason to be glad that they arc out of that country during the past week when a great sandstorm shrouded tin immense area, including Cairo, Alexandria and the Western Desert with a fog of grit. Air-liners were grounded and the temperature rose above 100 degrees. Hundreds of cars were stranded with boiling radiators. Defying the worst: sandstorm in the Sinai Desert within living memory. R.A.F. pilots and t'lonsattds of troops carried out daring operations to relieve the distress of hundreds of passengers of two trains buried deep in the sand between Egypt and Palestine.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 165, 10 April 1944, Page 5
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