PROBLEM TO SOLVE
MINE AND ANTI-TANK
DEFENCE
LONDON, July 30.
The correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" with the Eighth Army says: "Both sides are laying down more elaborate minefields before their positions and are strengthening their defences in depth. The Germans have now mined their entire front over a distance of 30 miles to forestall any future, frontal attack, and they are employing to a great extent mines which were lifted from our defences at Mersa Matruh.
"The defensive combination. of wellplanned minefields, with an adequate supply of anti-tank guns to cover them, has proved a lock to which no
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 5
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100PROBLEM TO SOLVE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 5
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