"MAORI SCALP-HUNTERS"
PATROL ACTIVITY IN DESERT
ROMMEL ALLEGES UNFAIR METHODS
LONDON, October 3. Field-Marshal Rommel, addressing a Press conference in Berlin,- said: "The British use foreign troops like the Maori scalp-hunters. This results in unfair methods of fighting. The Maoris penetrate a position and simply kill everybody. We have to reply to such methods with hard measures, though we prefer a fair method of warfare.
"We are 60 miles from Alexandria and have the gate to Egypt in our hands. We intend to act, and will hold what we possess.
"The first American tanks we encountered were badly constructed and poorly armoured, and proved worthless. We faced major quantities of American war material in the last battle, in which American tanks proved considerably better than before, but they are all lying behind our lines. We have destroyed about 2500 tanks since July."
Berlin radio says that 20 ships carrying a division of United States troops and war material have arrived at Port Takoradi, on the Gold Coast, to reinforce the Allied army in Egypt.
(Rec. 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, October 4
Headquarters at Cairo states: "During the night of October 2-3 our patrol activity continued. Yesterday there was nothing to report from our land forces. Rising dust curtailed air operations."—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1942, Page 4
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