IN CYRENAICA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 131, 30 November 1942, Page 5

IN CYRENAICA

GETTING READY FOR NEXT PUSH

(Rec. noon.) LONDON, Nov. 29. Berlin radio says that the Seventh British Tank Division, which on Saturday temporarily made fighting contact with Rommel's covering forces, is again quiet. The New Zealand Infantry Division is gradually closing its ranks in the Agedabia area, and behind it another British tank' division is slowly moving up between them, and two mr fantry divisions in central Cyrenaica are at least 125 miles away. Five other divisions of the Eighth Army are still between Mersa Matruh and Tobruk. Between Derna and Benghazi the road is covered with thousands of supply vehicles. It is concluded from this that General Montgomery is establishing large supply and ammunition dumps immediately behind his advance forces before bringing up his main army. AIR OPERATIONS. A Cairo joint communique states: "There is nothing to report from our land forces and there is nothing to report from our desert air forces. On i the night of November 27 our medium bombers attacked and dispersed aircraft at Marble Arch, forty miles west of Agheila. A large fire was started. A twin-engined fighter was shot down, also two S79's, and one CR42 over the sea between North Africa and Sicily yesterday. In addition, an attack on grounded transport aircraft was made at Eloutia, in Trjpolitania, where a dump was Set on fire and aircraft de-r stroyed. Airfields in Sicily were also attacked by fighter-bombers. From these and other operations two of our [ aircraft are missing."