LAND AND AIR PATROLS

Evening Star, Issue 24283, 26 August 1942, Page 5

LAND AND AIR PATROLS

COMPARATIVE QUIET IN DESERT (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. noon.) RUGBY, Aug. 25. A Middle East communique states: “ During the night of August 23-24 our patrols continued to be active, and in the northern sector attacked enemy patrols. Yesterday there were artillery exchanges in the central sector; otherwise there is nothing to report. Air activity over the battle area consisted of, sweeps and raids by our fighters and fighter-bombers.

GERMAN TANKS DESTROYED

FINE WORK BY BATTERY

(British Official Wireless.)

(ißec. 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 25. Seven enemy tanks were destroyed at eight and a-half miles range by an artillery battery in the El Alameiu area recently. An officer on reconnaissance saw 12 tanks within 100yds of his car and gave their position to the guns. The first shells fell right on the mark, and the second round set fire to three tanks The remainder were obscured by smoke and dust, but when the air cleared seven were out of action. Later the officer saw that other tanks had been put out of action.

U.S. MERCHANTMAN SUNK

TORPEDOED IN INDIAN OCEAN

WASHINGTON, August 24. . The Navy Department in Washington announced to-day that a mediumsized United States merchantman was torpedoed and sunk late in June in the Inman Ocean. The survivors landed at an east coast port. A San Salvador iliessage states that a lifeboat containing 23 survivors of the Swedish steamer Hammeren has arrived. -Three of those on board were wounded. Five of the crew are missing. The survivors are positive that submarines are being serviced with supplies by a surface raider.