ROMMEL'S SUPPLY PROBLEM
LONDON, August 12. The Cairo correspondent of "The Times" says that the lull at El Alamein, which has lasted for several weeks, is doubtless the ,calm before the storm.
It is not to be expected that Rommel will dally while the rich Nile Delta and also Alexandria are almost within sight, without making another determined effort. The pause has been imposed on Rommel by the necessity to bring up reinforcements and supplies over long and difficult lines of communication.
The Italians and Germans, who lost heavily in lorries in June and July, are husbanding their vehicles and making great use of barges and lighters which, however, are being heavily punished by British and American bombers at the ports of discharge and also while creeping along the coast.
Explosions and fires, nightly at Tobruk must greatly complicate the Axis supply problem. Recently-cap-tured German prisoners show that new drafts are either semi-trained boys or men over"4o" from garrison's' in AGreece and Crete.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 5
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