TENSE QUIETUDE
POSITION IN DESERT
GERMAN DEFENCE LINES
LONDON, October 29
A special correspondent of the "Daily Express" who has returned to Cairo after a 1000-mile tour remarks that there is a strange, tense quiet along the desert front. It is.the same quiet as there was in France at the beginning of the war. The Germans have been trying to build a line around Tobruk to keep the Briitsh in and another on the Egyptian border to keep the British out. They have strewn land-mines by the' thousand and mounted anti-tank
guns all over "the rock face of the Sollum escarpment, but they have not succeeded in checking the British patrols. -
Czechs are participating in the. fighting at Tobruk. They include Survivors of the Polish campaign who were taken prisoner by the Russians. .
After their release they found their way to Syria, where they joined the French. On the capitulation of France they joined the British.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1941, Page 6
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