ALL FAILED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1942, Page 3

ALL FAILED

ATTEMPTED LANDINGS FROM SEA

MADE BY ROMMEL’S FORCES i PARTIES KILLED OR CAPTURED. FLOW OF AXIS REINFORCEMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 10. It can now be revealed that FieldMarshal Rommel attempted a number 'of landings from the sea behind our lines during last week’s attack. These were designed to create confusion by carrying out widespread sabotage, but all failed, the landing parties being either killed or captured. Well-informed circles in Ankara state that the ships and planes being used to reinforce Rommel are capable of moving 8000 men a day. They add that reinforcements are coming mainly from Greece and Crete. ATTACK ON TOBRUK BY AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS. ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED OVER SICILY. In the Middle East, heavy bombers of the United States Air Force attacked Tobruk. The harbour and shipping had already been raided during the night. Other planes hit enemy lorries and a German fighter was shot down into the sea. Two other enemy planes were destroyed over Sicily. Squadron Leader R. M. McKenzie, Christchurch, shot down one of the three bombers destroyed over the Nile Delta on Tuesday night. PATROL ACTIVITY ALONG THE WHOLE FRONT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, September 10. A Middle East communique states: “On Tuesday night our patrol activity on the whole front continued and there were artillery exchanges in the northern and central sectors. “Yesterday, in the southern sector, our mobile columns engaged small parties of enemy tanks west of El Himeimat. “Air activity over, the battle area was on a reduced scale. Our light bombers scored hits on lorries on the Sidi Barrani-Mersa Matruh road and our fighters shot down a Messerschmitt 1&9 into the sea. “Our Malta fighters, shot down two enemy fighters over Sicily.”