PATROLS ACTIVE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 3

PATROLS ACTIVE

EGYPTIAN FRONT ALLIES REINFORCED ARTILLERY SUCCESSES t (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (11 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 12. A communique issued in Cairo stated that on Monday night our patrols were active over the whole front. Casualties were inflicted on enemy working parties in the northern sector. Yesterday, artillery exchanges took place in the northern and central sectors. Dust curtailed air operations in the battle area. A message from the Egyptian desert says that fighter pilots of the United States Air Force are operating there. They have been distributed among Royal Air Force fighter squadrons to learn desert flying. , The Eighth Army has been steadily strengthened by supplies and reinforcements arriving in the Suez Canal zone, reports the Daily Telegraph’s Cairo correspondent. Suez itself is prepared to handle twice the volume of supplies that arrived three months ago. Reuter’s correspondent says that a feature of the fighting on the Alamem front in the last fortnight has been duels between British artillery—our 25-pounders captured by General Rommel are now turned against us. i British • gunners - at .Ruweisat Ridge claim that we are getting the better of the duels. They say that'our fire has forced at least two enemy batteries from their desert holes, whereas we nave not shifted position once. Heavy Allied air attacks are again beginning to overshadow the artillery duels.