SEA WAR DECISIVE
MIDDLE EAST WAR HEAVY AXIS LOSSES (11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Attacks against enemy shipping will, pernaps, present a decisive aspect, in this phase of the Egyptian campaign, says the Daily Telegraph’s Cairo correspondent. Since June 1 we have sunk 40 cargo vessels representing 60,000 tons, damaged a further 80,000 tons, and sunk six escorts and damaged at least 12.
A communique issued in Cairo states our patrol activity continued on Saturday night. Yesterday there was nothing .to report from our land forces.
Air activity in the battle area was on a reduced scale, but enemy transport and ammunition lorries were successfully attacked on the GambutBardia road. An enemy raider was brought down near Amiriya on Saturday night, while last night a Heinkel was shot down in the canal area. During these operations we lost one aircraft.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20901, 29 September 1942, Page 3
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