GERMAN ACCOUNTS
OF LIBYAN FIGHTING HEAT CAUSING DIFFICULTIES. LITTLE WATER GIVEN TO BRITISH PRISONERS. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, June .18. Berlin military commentators describe the present fighting in Libya as the fourth stage of the battle, which is expected to last for from two to three weeks, German war correspondents’ reports suggest that British prisoners are given water only from captured supplies and when water supply columns reach the front, not from the regular German rations, which are “sufficient only to prevent our soldiers dying from thirst.” The correspondents stress the difficulties resulting from British minefields, shortage of water and the heat. One correspondent declared that minefields are one of the enemy’s worst arms.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1942, Page 3
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