CHANGING SCENES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1941, Page 5

CHANGING SCENES

IN TOE FIGHTING AREA 'VALIANT ACHIEVEMENTS. SOUTH AFRICAN TAKES TANK SINGLE-HANDED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 26. Describing the fighting in Cyrenaica, an agency correspondent says that the battle went on unceasingly, swaying backward and forward, with great mobility and at times resembling a sea rather than a land action, as heavy and light tanks rolled across the sandy wastes in battle formation.

British artillery was also harassing the enemy, and the infantry of either side was disputing every inch of ground.

The casualties on either side are heavy, but the German losses are said to be the heaviest. The battleground is piled' with destroyed and burnt-out tanks and motorised vehicles. , The R.A.F. were again acting in perfect co-operation with the army, and kept hammering at enemy tanks. All the British planes returned safely to advanced headquarters.

At one.place half a dozen British troops were suddenly confronted with 300 Italians advancing toward them. The British opened fire with a ma-chine-gun and hand-grenades, and after a short, sharp, fight, .the Italians beat a retreat.

Elsewhere a South African with an anti-tank gun and grenades chased a German tank and managed to jump on to it. Threatening the crew with grenades, he ordered them to drive toward the British headquarters.