Nicosia stay 20, ly" of Imperial troops who were tty of Imperial troops who. wert The servants. of the historic uard'at Mount Olympus in Tags fame. of them. St" and" wounded, Teached the. shores. of Cyprvsaftet ie: most astonishing London, May 20
Splendid pluck and endurance were shown by a young pilot officer fengoged in an attack on the aero~ drome of Gazala in Libya. Diving very tow with a total da regard for heavy ground fire, he sprayed two large enemy alreratt on the ground uuntit they were destroyed. He then swooped ona concentration of mechanized transport, braving a hail of machine-gun bull He received wounds in the head and shoulders and was losing blood rapidly when he turned his aircraft towards the Egyptian frontier 290 miles. away. Lacking—sueient strength {0 reach his squadron's base, he made a successful landing within the British lines where he fainted as he was helped from the cockpit.—Reuter.
They tell stories of desperate resist. ance against impossible odds when Nezi planes, tanks and infantry in masced assaults tried to smash. their Ying. One Anzac said: "The Germans came on like men determined to be Slaughtered. We mowed them down Ike les. One river where we made 2 stand was s0 choked with German bodies that you could walk across. 'Man for man, we were better than the Germans, but although our artillery was magnificent we had not the Swarms. of tanks and planes which was the real secret of the' German th, When eventually: tanké broke their lines. these men began to; march the coast. Rations exhausted. without blankets and most of their equipment discarded, day and night they trudged
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