CUT OFF IN DESERT
PARTY OF SOUTH ISLANDERS SAFE RETURN TO LINES (Official War Correspondent N.Z.E.F.) WESTERN DESERT, (Rec. 11 p.m.) Sept. 5. A party of South Islanders, of about platoon strength, who were cut off from their battalion during Thursday night's attack, returned to our lines through heavy fire this morning. They had advanced well forward during the attack, and throughout yesterday all the enemy's efforts to dislodge them failed. They shot at an enemy staff car, killed two German officers and two Italians, and captured the driver. Then from a distance they watched while the Italians buried Ihe dead.
The party was subjected to harassing fire and suffered some casualties.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25015, 8 September 1942, Page 3
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