"KIWIS" AND GERMANS
SHORT BUT HECTIC FIGHT
(Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 2. A correspondent of the British United Press with the New Zealanders near Tobruk, in a delayed dispatch, says that New Zealand infantry, supported by armoured cars, raided a German motorised battalion on the escarpment and after a short but hectic fight captured 100 Germans and four huge 10-ton desert lorries. A grinning "Kiwi" described the fight: "Our artillery gave this Jerry column a real pasting," he said. "The column began to break up into small parties all over the place. Then their tanks got into a running battle with ours, and we had our hands full. We worked our way up the side of the escarpment, while our armoured cars get behind'the Jerry cars, driving this bunch towards us. We waited until they were a few hundred yards away, and then charged over the top of the escarpment. After a few bursts from our machine-guns they jammed on their brakes and started jumping out. That was when we gave them the works. I did not bother to reload, but Just turned round my rifle and used it like a club." "This "Kiwi" came back loaded, with trophies,, including a German tommygun, two Mauser automatics, and a steel helmet bearing (ho pal mires and swastika emblem ci' the ITorih Africa ! Corps.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 9
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