NECESSARILY SLOW
FORMIDABLE OPERATION
(Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 29. A clear public warning was given at the, outset of the Eighth Army's attack that no spectacular success was to be expected, says "The Times" in a leader. "The Eighth Army is entrusted with the most formidable operation of its eventful history, an operation to the completion of which there is no short cut. It is necessary to blast a way forward. The progress of this fighting illustrates the revolution in the tactical handling of tanks. It has been discovered that tanks can be halted by minefields, and that if they are so halted they can be destroyed by the enemy's gunfire. "General Montgomery's first requirement is to bring the enemy's heavy armour into battle. It takes time to induce this conflict, and more time to decide it. Even if ten days or more elapse before the enemy's resistance can be mastered, the operation may be going according to plan."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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