Already there are many stories of bravery and initiative which have won for them striking successes with very fow losses. An audacious series fof coups and captures have been effected by four British rumoured cars on the Bardia-Tobruk coastal road, deep in enemy territory. The total haul of these four cars was: 34 lorries, three staff cars, three civilian cars destroyed, one Italian ofoer and 20 men killed, ten Tiallan oticers, in-eluding a general, and 1 Italian and 17 native soldiers captured, A tour of the Anglo-Italian battle. front revealed very trying conditions under which one of" the strangest wars of modern times is being waged, Both sides faced the same inexorable enemy-—the desert, Thousands of miles of communications must be maintained, rations distributed to distant outposts, troops transported. casualties evacuated, under a tropical sun, across waterless wastes con-Slantty" swept by serehing sand T sat with troops gathered outside wireless van, listening fo news broadcast from' London. They. had not washed for days, they" wore bearded and caked with congealed sweat and sand, but they listened with cheerful faces, and when the broadcast ended, and they loft for war stations, an irish soldier remark.
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