POTS NEGLECTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1942, Page 4

POTS NEGLECTED

WHILE COOKS BOMBARD TANKS. SIX-POUNDER GUNS APPROVED. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. “Our cooking gone to the bad—the cooks are too keen on shooting standards,” a correspondent in Cairo says. He got this greeting from a brigadier at a Nev; Zealand brigade headquarters in the Desert. The brigadier added: “The kitchen staff is now attached to one of our batteries, so they no longer bother about what we eat. We came here at top speed, bringing our own guns and vehicles, but we were issued new weapons while the first fighting was going on. None of our chaps had used the six-pounder anti-tank gun before. We got them when we were actually in contact with the enemy, but the boys handled them as though they had been trained on them for months. You will probably hear lots of stories about batteries using six-pounders for the first time and getting tanks with their third, second and even first shot. Those cooks are tigers. They went off with a six-pounder, taught themselves how to use it and between them they destroyed two tanks and a number of vehicles. It is a great gun and is one of the reasons why Rommel has been stopped.” ENEMY DIVISIONS ARRIVAL IN DODECANESE. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. An Associated Press Istanbul correspondent reports that four divisions of Italian infantry and marines, one division of German infantry and . at least part of a German motorised division have reached the Dodecanese Islands during the past month from Greece.