DESERT TRAP

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 33, 3 November 1942, Page 5

DESERT TRAP

Door Forced By Nazi Infantry (Received November 8,1.80 a.m.) LONDON, November 2. Tlie hitter battle is still raging on the coast, where Rommel’s DOtix Light Infiuitry Division, driving from the west succeeded in punching a hole in the Allied trap. The British United Press correspondent in a dispatch from the battlefield says: “Our scorching artillery fire pinned down a large body of Germans and also a battalion of Mussolini’s crack troops. In spite of its terror and grimness and the bloody slaughter it is an inspiring and heartening picture, because for once we saw' the Nazis aud Fascists at our mercy with the hammers of hell pounding round their heads. I have so often seen it the other way.

“Our offensive has slowed down to some extent, but the enemy is feeling the blow severely, and Is unable to mount it thorough-going counter-at-tack.- Though the enemy has hit back again and again, he has not thrown us off any important objective we have taken. But till we make a breakthrough the attack will not be a complete success.” The German News Agency claims that the first encounter of armoured forces iu Egypt ended in a clear victory tor the Axis and a disorderly, Chaotic British withdrawal.