MANOEUVRES IN DESERT
BRITISH FORCES’ "WAR.”
CAIRO. July 31
The Western Desert, where for 10 months past British Army. Navy and Air Force units have been in a “state of war,” will be an unrestricted area as from to-morrow, it is officially announced.
Miles of barbed-wire entanglements, half-filled in trenches and disintegrating sand-bags are all that is now left to mark the "battlefield” of the Western Desert. Here British forces have been engaged on the biggest combined manoeuvres of modern history, spread over nearly a year, as the result of which they have gained invaluable exporimice and attained a high pitch of efficiency. I
Almost overnight huge military canvas townships sprang up like mushrooms in strategic positions along the coast, and just as quickly and silently they have disappeared-— Reuter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 September 1936, Page 4
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