PAUSE CONTINUES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 3

PAUSE CONTINUES

IN LAND OPERATIONS IN EGYPT ALLIED FIGHTERS & BOMBERS ACTIVE. HITS SCORED ON AXIS SHIPS AT BENGHAZI. LONDON, September 17. In Egypt the pause in the land fighting continues, the only activity being by artillery and by patrols, which are keeping in contact with the enemy’s advanced posts. In the air Allied fighters carried out an offensive patrol over the battle area. Two enemy planes were shot down and many damaged. One Allied fighter was lost. Heavy bombers attacked shipping at Benghazi. They claimed hits on two vessels. One was set on fire.

NEARLY 1,500 PLANES EMPLOYED IN ATTACKS ON TOBRUK. ENEMY BASE HAMMERED NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 17. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied planes have participated in the Tobruk operations. Discussing this, a correspondent broadcasting from Egypt added that Sunday night’s big raid was a continuation of weeks of intensive night bombing. “Persistently, night after night, and with increasing strength,” he says, “we hammered Tobruk. There was only one night out of 31 last month on which our bombers were not over Tobruk. The town must now be a dreadful wreck. It is easily the most bombed town in North Africa.”