VICTORY SIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 5

VICTORY SIGN

THRUST ON NAZI NOTICE AT TOBRUK

THROWN ON THE SKY BY SEARCHLIGHTS.

AND PINNED ON CLOTHING OF ENEMY DEAD.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CAIRO, August 17. “Tobruk is probably the only battlefront where the Germans a re being daily confronted with the V sign in many different guises,” says the Australian official war correspondent.

“The Bren-gunners now control their bursts of tracer fire at night to space out the Morse ‘V.’ The searchlight crews join their beams in one huge V, covering the sky. “Thousands of the signs have been printed, and these are carried by every patrol and pinned to the clothing of the enemy dead and stuck to every German signpost our patrols come upon.” PATROL ACTIVITIES CONTINUED AT TOBRUK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, August 18. A General Headquarters communique states: —"In Libya at Tobruk there has been considerable enemy bombing. Our patrols continue their activities, steadily inflicting losses upon the enemy. “In the frontier area normal patrolling activities continue.”