SUPPLY PROBLEM
EIGHTH ARMY'S LONG LINE LONDON, Jan. 21. General Montgomery's army is now "operating 1,500 miles from its main base, says the Cairo correspondent of ' The Times.' Some supplies are sent by sea to Benghazi, as there is only a single-track railway for a short part of the w«v from.'the main base. The most urgent items are transported by air, but road transport is the backbone of the Eighth Army's supply. On the other hand, the enemy, during his long retreat, is continually falling back on his own supply lines, and the fact that with sucli an advantage the Axis forces are unable to make a stand anywhere is proof of the Eighth Army's fighting superiority and the immense damage done to the German war machine in the Battle of El Alamein.
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Evening Star, Issue 24409, 22 January 1943, Page 3
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133SUPPLY PROBLEM Evening Star, Issue 24409, 22 January 1943, Page 3
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