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EAST OF MATRATIN DISCUSSED IN CAIRO. POSSIBLE NUMBER OF AXIS VEHICLES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, December 18. Although the Cairo communique emphasises that the size and composition of the enemy cut off east of the Wadi Matratin is unknown, it would be normal for a retreating army io place the bulk of its tanks and anti-tank guns in the rear, to afford maximum protection for the main withdrawing force. The only possible basis for an estimate, of the number of enemy vehicles likely to be contained on the coastal strip, about 50 miles long, between the main force of the Eighth Army and the intercepting British column, is that generally an army withdrawing along a road subject to air attack would space out its vehicles twenty to the mile. Thus, apart from the bunching of vehicles, which is likely as a result of air attack, there may be about a thousand vehicles trapped cast of Matratin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1942, Page 3
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