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A.I.F. GOES TO WORK
“Real Job” In Egypt
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 6, 1940-
PILOT'S FEAT
SEVER TEST
Lands Two Planes FOR A.L.F. It may now be revealed When two large that there are Australian R.A.A.F. reconnaissance I have just "returned to, camp troops in the Western De-planes collided in mid-air after two days spent in the desert sert of Egypt, writes a near Junee, Australia, the with A.L.F. troops, during which correspondent from Cairo. trainee-pilot of the top tack and defence were success- They are engaged on the im-m a chin e landed his fully practised, writes a слего portant task of guarding lines of 'plane, with the other correspondent. communication preparatory to
new tactical formations in at-
Joining British, Indian, and French locked to it, and stepped. The manoeuvres, which involv- troops in operations against the from the wreckage un-ed a long march across the sand
Italians.
Their task is to protect roads, hurt. rallways, and aerodromes, to
maintain mobile patrols, to garri- Two trainees were in each son points of strategic importance, ¦ plane. Three of them parachuted and, in general, to ensure that and landed safely, though one there is no enemy infiltration be- was slightly hurt." hind the main British line of de- fence.
This task is the culmination of months of training, and the men are delighted at last to be doing a "real job."
The type of country in which
they are operating is rough, rugged desert, sparsely covered with low tufts of the hary camel bush.
The central camp where they are living under canvas is primi- tive in the extreme, with washing facilities very limited and plenty of dust and sand.
or
in blazing suri and intense heat, were a servere test, especially for the infantry, who emerged with flying colours,
They advanced with full equip- ment over, most difficult country, By his coolness and resource including patches of loose sand, the pilot who remained at the rough, stony rises, and broken controls, Aircraftman L. G. Fuller, wadls. Their condition at the saved the Commonweath. about end of the first day was a con- £40,000 because, though both vincing demonstration of their planes were considerably damaged absolute physical fitness. Despite they can be repaired.
the intense heat they subsisted
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4
of
action
The other trainees were. I. M. for 24 hours on one quart Sinclair, J. Hewson (who was water per man.
injured), and H. G. slightly
Thunder Of Guns Fraser. All the men were from the Wagga Air Training School.
Besides the infantry there were Witnesses said that the 'plants!
cavalry, artillery, were flying at only 1,000 fest mechanised when
collided. they
Thoir and anti-tank detachments tak- ma-ing part, and all day there was wings interlocked and the chines went into a slow spiral. the thunder of guns in It was a low altitude for safe against imaginary tanks attempt- "baling out," but the
thres ing to harass an advance. Stand- ing on top of a steep sandy rise parachutes opened promptly.
I watched with field glasses an Fuller landed the machines
advance of meases of motor tran- together in which locked
pick-a-back fashion in T. Murphy's property, sport of all kinds, and tractor- four miles south-west of Brock drawn guns with files of slouch- lesby. A propeller of the top hatted infantry marching steadi- machine had apparently embedded ly between, while machine-gun carriers skirmished here and itself in an engine housing of the bottom 'plane. On landing, the there. cabin of the bottom machine was smashed, and its propeller into the earth.
Most of the troops, however, are out on the job travelling as guards for trains, maintaining Dosts alon the roads,
pro- tecting aerodromes.
Others have been formed into mobile patrol units in lorries and machine-gun carriers, they cruise across country on a Icind of roving commission.
The train crews on the trains bringing up supplies to the men at the front are composed entirely of Australians. The call for men who have been engine drivers or Aremen in civil life has met with a ready response, and there are soldiers at the now Australian controls of all rolling-stock in the Western Desert.
Business-Like Troops
dug
were on a
in At night, which
contrast with the day was quite sharply cold, the troops dug themselves The two aircraft reconnaissance flight, and collid-in and lay down on ground sheets ed at about 10:30 am., 50 miles beside their weapons in readiness for a dawn attack against.. a from the aerodrome.
I was strong "enemy" position. awakened at 4 am. by a heavy cannonade, and saw the sky to the rear lit with the red flashes of our guns, which were laying down a creeping barrage, under cover of which the infantry bat- talions advanced and cleared the enemy positions at the bayonet point.
Fuller said later that he decided to try to bring the 'planes down in a forced landing to save them from destruction.
The chief impressions I carried why after a day spent with the Australian troops in the Western Air oficils who inspected the Desert were the excellent spirits damaged machines described his of the men and the business-like feat as one of the most astound- way in which they have settleding in the history of aviation. down to their war tasks.
They are now responsible for keeping open 100 miles of com- munication across the desert. They are gaining invaluable first-hand experience
of
the
WEAKNESS
type of country over which they IN
IN DESERT
will ultimately campaign.
I visited one detachment which was guarding an aerodrome. They were in full battle kit manning trenches protected by barbed wire, Miles further on there was
ADVANCE
Sun-Glasses Needed
After watching numerous A.I.F.. manoeuvres in the desert, I quite agree with certain Australian officers who advocate the issue of anti-glare glasses to all men of the A.IF. The glare from, the sand is very severe, "and "sub-"
Officers and men who have
While Italian organisation and Jects the men's eyes to strain been which inevitably increases fati- big mobile detachment with equipment seem to have
besides predisposing the torries and machine-gun carriers very good in the initial advance i gue,
con- standing by. ready for instant to Sidi Barrani, they are already eyes to such diseases as nction. Their task was to rein- encountering that great weakness junctivities, "orce any threatened point and to on which Anglo-Egyptian strate- deal with any attempt to land gists have always relled-the in- eremy troops from air or sea. evitable exposure of communica- bought their own sun glasses -say The Commander-in-Chief of the tions during a rapid advance in that the relief is tremendous cn Middle East Armv. General Sir which consolidation in width is a march across the desert. Archibald Wavell, incnocted units impossible.
The Australians have been in- of the A LF. who are still in campi in Egypt.
.
The Italians are really moving
GERMAN INTERNEE ply depots at many points
RECAPTURED
along a ribbon track in a vast terested to note frequent refer- expanse of sandy and rocky de- ence to them in the daily Eng- sert. They are establishing ar-lish-language propaganda broad tillery posts and intermediate sup-cast from Rome. The announcer, Cn they believe, is either an Aus-. had tralian or an Italian whỏ this track, but that is not a sufficient precaution for the main lived many ears in Australia. tenance of communications, Such He uses many Australian collo- posts and depots cannot be hid-quialisms,
and are Siegfried Carl Kast, 25, a Ger-den from observation man, who has been sought by civil thus highly vulnerable to attack and military police since he escap-from the air and the sea.
The British naval units are ed from an internment camp near Shepparton was arrested to-day already shelling Sidi Barrani and
other parts of the coastal On the Shepparton-Melbourne and in view of the absence of Kast was recognised when he Italian naval counter-attack the boarded the train by Constable S. ships seem able to McKenzie, who was bringing an- close range. Simultaneously the other prisoner from Shepparton RA.F, using new types of long- to Melbourne. Kast dented his Identity until confronted with his picture, which the guard of the train had in his pocket.
Kast was brought to Melbourne and locked up at the City Watch house.
train at Murchison.
road
come into
PLANE TO TRICYCLE
Flying Doctor's New Role
distance bombers, is ranging from Sidi Barrani right across Italian Cyrenaica to Benghasi.
These attacks on Italian com To at his patient to hospital, be noted Australia's famous "Flying Doc-. munications, it must
the tor," Dr. J. G. Woods, had to leave are being delivered before main armies have established his plane and the help operate a Although official reports had contact, and it is clear that after railway tricycle. said that Kast spoke English poor- the forces have been engaged and
Railway men had worked from. ly, the escapee spoke English per-after British land resistanci, be- fectly when apprehended. He had comes more severe, such harry-early in the morning on a pad. not changed his clothes since his ng tactics will play an ever more deck near Kalseen.ha siding about important part. The spearhead 110 miles east-south-east of Bro- formations will hav brought ken Hill to prepare a landing The arrest ended his second escape from internment camps. their supplies with them, but ground for the "Flying Doctor's He was brought to Victoria after nothing is to be drawn from that plane but Pilot Bond was unable
escape.
he
escaped from ก
Queensland.
In camp
NAZIS MAY DANCE -SOMETIMES
desert waste and 'hey will de- to lond there, as the ground was cend upon a single vulnerable full of fabbit burrows. A landing lue of communication for every. was, made some distance farther bullet, every bread roll, and along the line. every pint of water. The failure
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Mr. Brown, father of the patient, of supply trains to get through continuously would be utterly Hazel Brow, aged 4, rode to meet Bremen wireless announced that disastrous to Italian morale in the doctor on a tricycle. On the Hitler had partially withdrawn that kind of country and that return to the siding, Dr. Woods the ban on dancing imposed in climate, and it is d'mcult to see had to assist in working it. Ho May. From now on dancing in what military steps the Italians examined the girl and found her Germany will be permitted in can take to stop the British harry-suffering from bronchitis, and Im public places on Wednesday and ing, especially if their feet will mediate arrangements were made | Saturday nights,`..
not come into action.
for her removal to Broken -Hill,-