NOTABLE FEATURE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24134, 28 November 1941, Page 7

NOTABLE FEATURE

AIR FORCE ACTIVITY TROOPS SUPPORTED CEASELESS RAIDING (Rml. 6.50 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 26 Renter's correspondent with the Eighth Army says the most notable feature of the fighting in the desert is the unprecedented Royal Air Force activity. An officer who served in Libya last year, and in France, Greece and Crete, said: "This is the first time when, on hearing aircraft, one can say to oneself, 'No need to look, they are sure to be ours.' " Empire aircraft continue to cooperate with bombing attacks on enemy motor transports and armoured fighting vehicles and concentrations in the battle area. One particularly successful attack on an enemy column resulted in a number of enemy vehicles being hit and damaged. Bombers have also carried out heavy raids on Benghazi, Berka and Benina. Renter's correspondent says Hurricanes and Beaufighters and the Ameri-can-built Tomahawks are being used in large numbers. The Royal Air Force, he says, is using the largest force that it has ever employed in land operations. The Hurricane fighter-bombers are playing a particularly important part. Correspondents describe how scores of British fighters and bombers attacked nearly 800 enemy vehicles bringing up petrol and other supplies. "They went at the enemy non-stop," states one correspondent. "No sooner had one group of aeroplanes returned than another was on the way to carry on the good work." One of the biggest surprises for the Allied troops continues to be the lack of raids on. their own positions. Hurricanes, Tomahawks and Beaufighters are estimated to have destroyed 150 enemy machines. AUSTRALIAN'S RESOURCE TOOK GERMANS FOR RIDE RESCUE BY NEW ZEALANDERS LONDON, Nov. 27 The remarkable rescue of an Australian flying-officer who' had been shot down in the desert is told by a correspondent. The Australian was captured by German soldiers who drove up in an English truck which they had taken, and he was ordered to direct them to Sidi Omar. The Australian consented, but instead he led the Germans many miles further south. They drove on until they reached the frontier, and then the Germans became suspicious. Suddenly two German trucks ippeared. The Australian's hopes of escape faded. The Germans were delighted ind drove straight toward the other :rucks, only to find them full of New Sealanders, who seized the Germans. Phe New Zealanders had captured the ;rucks in the earlier fighting. GERMANY BOMBED BRITISH RAID ON EMDEN LONDON, Nov. 27 British bombers attacked targets in lorth-western Germany last night. The >ort of Emden and other objectives t'ere raided in considerable force, tales the Air Ministry. The docks at )stend were also-bombed. One bomber s missing. One enemy bomber was destroyed ver Britain last night, when bombs i'ere dropped in South Wales. The raid i T as not on a large scale.