COMMAND SOUTH OF CAUCASUS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5

COMMAND SOUTH OF CAUCASUS

LONDON, August 23. The War Office has announced that it has been decided to set up a new independent army command to be knowm as the Persia-Iraq Command. The King has appointed General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to the command.

General Wilson was born in 1881, and served in the South African War and the World War. In February, 1941, he took over the command in Cyrenaica as

military governor, and two months later he was made G.O.C. of the British forces in Greece. Afterward he commanded the armies in Palestine and Transjordania, and last December he was given the command of the Ninth Army in the Middle East.

RAID NO HINDRANCE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 23. Two enemy fighter sweeps approached Malta today while aquatic sports, promoted by the Royal Air Force, were in progress, but neither the competitors, who were drawn from all the services, nor the spectators, were disturbed. British fighters met the enemy and turned them back, and no engagements occurred. General Headquarters in Cairo reports : “Apart from patrol activity, there is nothing to report from our land forces. There has been a slight increase in air activity. Our fighter-bombers successfully attacked groups of enemy vehicles in the southern and central sectors.”