Hard Fighting Ahead
(British Official Wireless.) . RUGBY, Oct. 26. The 8.8. C. observer with the army says: The Eighth Army is fighting its way up a gradually widening corridor and on the scale of the present battle it is bound to be a highly concentrated affair, at least until Mersa Matruh is reached. For the same reason casualties must be expected on both sides—maybe heavy casualties—before there is a decision, and all indications so far suggest that casualties have both been suffered and inflicted.
Although yesterday enemy air activity in the battle area was rather heavier than before and there has been some bombing of our troops by Stukas, it does not mean that there has been any slackening in the supremacy the R.A.F. holds over the Luftwaffe.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 255, 28 October 1942, Page 5
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