EMPIRE BOMBERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 8

EMPIRE BOMBERS

INTENSIVE EFFORT

NAZI COLUMNS BLASTED

WARFARE nj DESERT

(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 22.. The R.A.F. is unloosing its most intensive effort since the beginning of the desert war against German concentrations and transport columns in Cyrenaica, says the correspondent of the Associated Press • of Great Britain in the Western Desert. During the last thirty hours eight German planes have been destroyed, scores of vehicles set on fire, and ammunition and petrol dumps blown up. To meet the British air offensive the Germans are stationing tanks at regujlar intervals along the roads and trails to combat low-flying attacking planes. A considerable German force equipped with 2000 vehicles has been concentrated in the Capuzzo-Bardia area, but there is no indication of an immediate enemy offensive being planned. THE MAIN TARGET. This concentration has been the main target of the British air attacks. The British air losses so far have been extremely light. The pilots concede that the German anti-aircraft fire is superior to the Italian and is improving. Air observers report seeing enemy troops in the desert clad in khaki instead of the usual grey-green uniforms. —U.P.A.