INCREASED AIR ACTIVITY
SUCCESSES ON ENEMY SHIPPING (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9.55 a.in.) RUGBY, Aug. 26. Air activity over the El Alamein (battle front from August 22 to 25 has
shown a gradual increase, culminating on Tuesday in an attack by fighters and fighter-bombers on suspected! headquarters and on transport vehicles in the southern sector, says the Air Ministry News Service.
Light bombers also operated effectively in the same area, and further west long-range fighters attacked eastbound road transport, inflicting considerable casualties. During the past few -days our heavy bombers have consistently raided! Tobruk, scoring direct hits on shipping and causing explosions and fires.
In the Mediterranean raids on enemy convoys by our torpedo 'bombers scored a probable hit on a tanker _in the lonian* Sea, and also possible hits on a merchantman and a destroyer.
MR CHURCHILL'S CONFIDENCE
LETTER TO BRITISH EGYPTIAN COMMUNITY (British Official Wireless.) (Ree. 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 26. In a message addressed! to the British community in Egypt, in which he pays tribute to tjre valuable assistance they have rendered to the war effort, Mr Churchill says: “As head of the Home Government, I can assure you it is our set purpose to repel the enemy’s assault on Egypt, and I am confident we shall succeed. 1 am no less confident that you will play your part in this great moment of our history, and that you will be able when success has been won to look back on it with pride.”
PATROL ACTIVITY
ENEMY TRANSPORT BOMBED (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 26. A Cairo communique states: Our patrol activity continued during the night of August 24-25. Enemy patrols and working parties were engaged and harassed in the central sector. Yesterday there was nothing to report from the land forces.
Our light bombers, fighters, and fighter-bombers were active in the forward area. Direct hits were scored on enemy transport. Our long-range fighters attacked enemy east-bound transport vehicles on the Sollum-Matruh road, and inflicted casualties.
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Evening Star, Issue 24284, 27 August 1942, Page 5
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