IVING like human moles, British soldiers are holding the line on the Libyan Frontier and are constantly harassing the enemy with patrols in the coastal region, in the vicinity of Sollum.
I saw them among scrub beside trenches, into which they scramble when enemy aircraft appear over the Sollum escarpment from Libya on their regular, twiceily, bombing and machinegunning excursions.
Some machines, flying high, drop high-explosive bombs in the sand, and others fly at about 100 fedt and try and mac troops crouching in trenches, who return their fire with Biron guns.
At the same time, these low-lying planes throw out small hand bombs.
"Apart from the Royal Alr Force, the main brunt of the fighting in the western desert has fallen on British armoured units and thanks to them, British troops. at present dominate 3500 square miles of Tiallan terri Tripoli. All our planes returned Jeafely to their bases.
"Two patrol ships attacked and destroyed an enemy submarine," It concluded.
Another communique was issued summing up operations since Italy's Jentry into the war, It sal
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