PATROL ACTIVITY IN EGYPT

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 259, 31 July 1942, Page 6

PATROL ACTIVITY IN EGYPT

Artillery Engagements In One Sector ALLIED BOMBING (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) ’ LONDON, July 30. Land’lighting/in.Egypt is still on the small scale. Today’s Cairo. communique reports that patrol activity continued and there were artillery engagements in the central sector. . Dust curtailed air activity, but Allied bombers scored successes in the southern sector. Fighters maintained sweeps over the Imperial trobps. Statements that some German tanks in the desert were fitted with a special cooling system were disproved by the British Minister of Production, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, in the House of Commons. He said that captured German tanks showed that there was no refrigeration apparatus. CAUSED A DIVERSION New Zealanders’ Bluff (Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) CAIRO, July 29While the British-Australian-South African raid on the northern sector was at its height on Sunday night and for hours before it opened, the New Zealanders in their sector were causing a diversion with full sound effects. New Zealand patrols went out tankhunting, but were handicapped a good deal by moonlight. They continued with their, grand bluff in an effort to lead the enemy‘into the belief that a large-scale attack was about to be launched by them. Parties of sappers went out as it to clear the minefield. Infantry moved as if forming up on a starting line for another of the New Zealanders’ feared bayonet attacks. Appropriate soundeffects were provided by Bren ■ carriers and motors of trucks roaring in the .stillness of the desert. Frequent. Hares shot up into the moonlit . skyfrom the German lines. ' ' There was everything to indicate a coming attack. Then the New Zealanders’ artillery opened up shortly, after. midnight on the predicted shoot. Twenty-live pound-, ers crashed away at the. enemy for sew. oral hours to assist in the Dinted. Kingdom, Australian and South African thrust from,the' north. The New Zealand positions were <helte<l spasmodically, but not with nnv great intensity. The Germans were to 6 busy driving off the attack m the north. ' LOWER EGYPT RAIDED (British Official Wireless.) • (R.cM J.J, It was officially announced in Cairo that, several bombs were dropped last ni-ht in one of the northern provinces of Lower Egypt. Two persons were wjurcd and the damage, was slight.