ROMMEL’S ADVANCE
HAMPERED BY BRITISH SAPPERS DESTRUCTION OF ROADS & DUMPS. IN DESERT BATTLE AREA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, June 26. British sappers did much to hamper General Rommel’s advance when it was decided to withdraw the British forces from the frontier line. Enemy columns consisting of armoured cars,, mobile guns, antitank guns and motorised infantry found the roads crossing the escarpment in all the passes from the coast to Halfaya, and further south, blown up. In some cases, two tons of dynamite were used. The sky was illuminated by the terrific flashes of explosions wrecking Halfaya Pass and the winding road across the escarpment and other passes. The sappers did such a perfect piece of work that they rendered these roads impassable for a while. British sappers also destroyed a considerable number of fuel and food dumps.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1942, Page 4
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142ROMMEL’S ADVANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1942, Page 4
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