ARTILLERY ACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 5

ARTILLERY ACTION

ITALIANS DRIVEN OUT OP PORT AND HARRIED IN RETREAT. SAPPERS HARD AT WORK. ißy Tvlfiirapli—Press Awoilatlon—Copyriglit. LONDON. February 3. A Derna message states that accurate fire from British heavy and light artillery is considerably hampering the retreat of the Italian rearguard. The British made contact with tht Italians <>n Sunday afternoon and land, ed shells with deadly precision on a fort commanding the road to th<- we-‘ .After hours of intense tire the British silenced the guns of the fort winch . was then evacuated by its gari•< ■•■.. n ’Die Derna correspondent of "The Times" says that the fighting fig Dorna is a valuable experience, accm timing tile troops ’<> the terrain and the use ~f cover that t.- so i-ntt.d f,, : avoiding heavy i<.The Amtralian infantry have applied the new tactic < xtrerm iy well and this augurs well for similar Sighting in the hill <■ untrv ahead Tin l Australians have paid tribute the ' Pommies' a •■‘.he co.>!>. t p’o!;. v.e have ever seen " The Au 'l’.il.a:: rappers themselves have been surj singly cool m opening •hr- ■ Desna am! iemuvmg n ; - ,■>. ■ Another terrific t a-ce <>* w-.rk the i cpfllring of the ; . j rt> . ~ . . merit wall. The Italians had pj 4 , v , •> away two hairpm br>;d>. om- irsmido ately above ’he Other. and the a ; tralnim. l>],i .''••■! >o--, r the r;:T face The sapper”. have u rp . :o-d i mine ■ and trapt which the Italian; I'