AXIS UNEASINESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 8

AXIS UNEASINESS

WAR OF ATTRITION IN

EGYPT

PROBLEM OF SUPPLY

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 30. British spokesmen on the Egyptian battle continue to confine themselves to the reassuring fact that the Allies are still gaining ground, which they are holding against all enemy counterattacks. On the contrary, Rome radio today for the first time displayed uneasiness about the outcome of the British plan to wear out the Axis forces by exploiting the advantages of nearer bases. The radio pointed out that the Axis forces are facing supply difficulties owing to the distance from their bases.

The German news agency stated tonight that very heavy fighting is con 1 tinuing. A correspondent of the British United Press, cabling from Allied air headquarters in the "Western Desert, says that the Germans brought up air reserves yesterday in an attempt to stem the Allied offensive, the intensity of which is still increasing. The Italians and Germans used 30 dive-bombers in one attack against forward Allied troops. Allied fighters roared up and chased off the raiders, but missed by seconds an opportunity for a major kill.

The correspondent of "The Times" on the Alamein front says there is no disguising the superb part the Allied air forces are playing. They are active day and night. "I saw one • enemy plane crashing to earth at daylight," he says. "It was the R.A.F.'s first victory for the day—scored before the final bomber squadron appeared on the homeward flight from night attacks on the Germans."