SUPPLIES FOR MIDDLE EAST
8000 TONS A DAY HANDLED (Rec. 8.55 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. The amount of cargo unloaded at Suez, through which General Sir Harold Alexander’s command draws its entire supplies and reinforcements, now averages 8000 tons a day, compared with 800 tons a week before the war, reports The Daily Telegraph’s Cairo correspondent. . £ n x The quay accommodation at Port Tewfik, on the southern entrance of the canal, has been trebled since the outbreak and this capacity will be doubled when the big new docks are
completed on the east side of Suez Bay. The dock labourers are mostly fellahin (peasants) from the upper Egyptian villages. They get a bonus for particularly speedy unloading. The work proceeds 24 hours a day on seven days a The Cairo communique states: “Our patrol activity was continued on Saturday night. Yesterday there was nothing to report from our land forces. Air activity over the battle area was on a reduced scale, but enemy transport and ammunition lorries were successfully attacked on the Gambut-Bardia road. An enemy raider was brought down near Amiriya on Saturday night, while last night a Heinkel was shot down over the canal area. During these operations we lost one aircraft."
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Southland Times, Issue 24862, 30 September 1942, Page 5
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