TIRED TANK CREWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24133, 27 November 1941, Page 9

TIRED TANK CREWS

WEEK'S HARD FIGHTING INFANTRY more prominent LONDON, Nov. 25 •f n authoritative spokesman in Cairo *aid that tho crews of tanks on both sides were almost worn out with fatigue ®fter nearly a week of fighting. The battle was not abating, but gradually shifting from tank action to infantry fiction. The latest information indicates that * radical change is gradually occurring the Sidi Rezegh engagement, says . Times' Cairo correspondent. Origmally a rnass encounter between armoured vehicles, the engagement is now fuming the guise of. a modern pitched attle, with mobile artillei-y playing a r e important part. It seems that the tank units, for the moment slightly rawD off, are now licking their wounds afl d taking stock of the position. The pace of the last week was too to last and temporary and percasualties have compelled a reathing space. Tanks are now mainly Ihf t ' ie i,lfan^r y sporadically. mj 'Siting, however, is no loss fierce. i>'» i® * s 110 iuformation concerning among the men, but it is jointed out that it was never expected a second Libyan campaign could f,J ou ßht with the amazingly low casuwes of General Wavell's advance.