Durban, May 15.
An American shipping firm, the Robin Line, has presented the South '.frican army with mobile field hospital of four vehicles for' use in the Middle East. The hospital, which cost £8,000. 15 equipped With an CFerating theatre, en X-ray room and good stoad. and they held their ground, The country is extraordin" tarily dimeult, and remarkable work hat been done by Indian soldiers in mule columns, One. outstanding exploit among many was a bayonet charge led by an Indian officer, An enemy machine-gun_ singled him out, but he miraculously escaped the stream of Bullets and silenced the post.
Another instance during the desperate enemy counter-attack was when a Sepoy stood right out in the open hurling hand-grenades among the advancing Italians, Continuous thunderstorms and. neavy rains have failed entirely 10 dampen the men's spirits and a stream of prisoners including many oticers Ss being evacuated to the rear—
Reuter,
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