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BRITAIN AND ITALY ARE SKIRMISHING IN THE SAND
ON THE LIBYAN BORDER.
A Libyan border sandstorm seems to be pouring the whole desert into the little headquarters tent where I sit writing, Outside it would be 115 degrees in the shade if there were any shade. The whole camp, with its mixture of armoured vehicles and Army lorries, is covered by a pall of whirling, biting dust that cannot be kept out of cars, eyes, ar boots.
when the dew is wet on every-
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Before the sandstorm I had, warfare. From a small mound sven more little phases of the you can see for miles over the
comparatively flat terrain. desert war. Passing from
Dust, being ubiquitous, is both advance camp to advance camp good camouflage and a fatal in the early dawn, with a wet give-away. A slight move causes mist still in the air, I watched a swirl caught by the wind and scattered fighting groups carry. scen for miles, except at dawn, ing hostilities into Mussolini's thing. One may watch an among British troops is low. evening air; two twos and a three fly-ridden desert colony. Italian plane flying to and fro italian prisoners have revealed whistled overhead.
for hours looking in vain for an
a much that they have had
Beyond the ridge was a dip This is not the primitive war
encampment. you might expect. It is most
But everything hangs on that tougher time. Their worst ill- and a bigger ridge. The mark- sores which ed white rocks led me on until I modern. You seldom see camels, plane while it is about. Usually Desses come from
scratch, stumbled up against a concealed on to any or mules, or native soldiers. the Italians, after a prolonged fasten
sandbagged parapet and reached scrutiny, drop their bombs on an Flles infect the scratch and cause the observation pit. Instead there
tanks,
area of no consequence, and the prolonged festering. amoured cars, and acroplanes, R.A.F. by their activity keep
"Hullo, you're just in time," The trouble in this war is and even before these can combat camps fairly safe.
that only the skilled observer someone said. He was young, sandy-haired, slight-bearded, On the ground hand-to-hand knows what is going to happen with sun sores on the back of his an enemy they must combat
fighting has so far been rare. next. As witness my experience hands and a captain's pips on desert conditions.
Occasionally a patrol moves out at an observation post lately his shoulder. "Anything doing?" British forces are scattered in into the still night to bring in an The observation post was just I asked, straightening up.
"Keep down. They can see. these motorized units over most Italian lorry or tank laid up over a sand ridge.
I followed the marked rocks you when you do that. Yes, of the Egyptian western desert during the day. They may
Each fighting unit makes happen to meet a party of the between the sage-brush, groping there will be something doing." enemy out for the same prize, forward with a tin hat on the He was crouched before a break THE GANDHI TECHNIQUE
its own front line.
but the Italians rarely move by back of my head. Flies crawled in the sandbags, with field about my nose and sand swirled glasses before his eyes. The MYSTICAL, spectacular The Italians have not ventured night. Mahatma Gandhi Has indicated into Egypt over the barbed wire Most casualties are from the around my eyes.
roar of our guns was intensified. weather rather than the war, From somewhere behind I "Funny," the captain sald, "the that he is about to indulge in which forms the frontier. The Even so the percentage of illness heard a battery roar in the Italians haven't replied yet.”?: ·
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another of his fasts. This time British armoured car patrols
it is for "freedom, of speech":| move into Libya through "breaks But his objectives embrace far in the wire," spaces cut through wider
issues. Gandhi has at certain strategic points, and always had one idea in his head they may patrol the whole day --constitutional reforms which through seeing nothing. would bring India self-govern- ment.
The expanse of desert imposes the same remote existence upon
There Is
BIG
a
New
BERTHA?
The Mahatma still makes this the Italians as upon the British. Now all the youth of England are which is a modest size compared with
success.
on fire,
Message for the Major
one and the men consider it a lucky And silken dalliance in the wardrobe howitzers threw against Antwerp./will. Their batteries are over on that
TROT
The Italian guns
I stooped beside him and peered out upon the barren desert, but there was nothing in sight but a few poles, a burnt-out Italian plane, and s truck.
"I thought I should see something," his burning ideal and
and he replied, "You the 20001b. shell that the German I confessed, respects him for his ardent and break when they encounter anlier;
Big-Bertha-L-did not do much ridge 2,000 yards away. Their ob- servation post is just on the right. passionate consistency. The Italian tank or two. Their cars. Now thrive the armourers, and damage, and she was expensive. She About 1,000 yards. They've got their measure of success which has faster and fitted with good anti- honour's thought
had to be relined after 30 rounds. encampment camouflaged near the hitherto attended
battery. Wait till our guns start on Gandhi's tank guns, zigzag about the Reigns solely in the breast of every I have heard a great deal about them. passive resistance has left his usually retreating tanks and let
Big Bertha II. Her shells are alleged Suddenly there was a flash from KING HENRY V. opponents bewildered; but per- them have it.
to be 6001b., and to be fired 50,000ft. the ridge. We heard the high moan- I ducked. haps their bewilderment would
THE armourers were key men up into the stratosphere. Six months ing whistle overhead,
"There they go," said the captain, The gunner is allowed one hit
were promised that BigTooling for our third battery." be less if they fully appreciated
indeed. They deserved to thrive. ago we shell, and he usually
Bertha II, would be hauled · along
Hashed again. the psychology of the English-one man, who, with his inculcated or succeeds. I watched a chase They were the Amalgamated the railway to Walcheren Island and The captain moved to his field tele
of those from there she would shell London. phone and called to Ballery H.Q. "That's the battery on the ridge. borrowed notions of "Cricket," during which every shot. was a Engineering Union
The story now goes that the R.A.F., You can let them have it."
He swung round and resumed his being aware that Big Bertha II. is cannot hit a man when he's hit, and looking inside the tank days. Their work was highly
observation. There was nabther one- down. This, of course, is only one afterwards I noted the devastat-paid, it was so vital. For a mounted on a railway truck, have two-threo from our guns, then two. contribution to the Mahatma's ing result of the anti-tank faulty weapon or a sult of bombed to places every bridge over from the Italians. "Now we might. that separate get it," he smiled. "When our guns. One must also re-bullets, which had splintered armour that was weak in the the myriad canals
they usually turn their stuff over member that he is pleading into a million fragments on joints might mean the death of Walcheren from the Dutch mainland, open fire on their 778 on the ridge.
liere
somewhere. the King himself. That might Also, the RAF. have bombed every a cause, which, in these en-piercing the tank walls..
Junction leading from Germany IntoDo they know you're here?" mean the end of the battle-and Holland. If this be true, then It seems "They've got an idea. There: they lightened days, commands the
that the RAF are a good deal more shed up from the ridge, which was A column of sand and rubble than covered in a cloud of dust. The The Italians have been trying The armourers are coming back. worried about Big Bertha II.
young captain noticed my alarm and their air weapon against the Many things are coming back. The any gunner is.
There was another Of course, it is not true. If Biz reassured me. veniences to which he has sub. patrol cars, but not with the the tin hat. The hand grenade, which Bertha was going to Walcheren she salvo and another. "That was from
Their tech- went out with the musket, success expected.
He rang through to the battery. came would have got there long ago. And something farther back," he said. jected them.
to::shell There was another burst along the nique is to catch a small group back. Now vizors, may return; even if the Germans wanted At the present moment of armoured cars in the open body armour. After all, the tank is London now with Big Bertha they ridge in the distance, and the Italians replied immediately throwing more could get a great deal nearer than rubble and sand up before U I felt Gandhi has added another string desert with a large flock of only a super horse power chariot.
What's wrong with they were getting near. to his bow. While willing to planes repeatedly diving and The trouble about armour has Walcheren.
"You're all right," shouted the cap concede the righteousness of dropping incendiary bombs and always been its weight. It immob! Culeist
lises. Remember the fearful slaughter I imagine that Big Bertha IIain without removing his field glasses. The salvos seamed' to bo Britain's fight againat Nazism, tracer and. armour-piercing
of the heavy French knights by originates in the writings of Herr getting personal. After that I re- Gandhi and his Congress Party bullets.
Henry Vs Engilsh and Welsh bow- Professor Kaffer. He wrote in the membered nothing but the sand in my Swan, Culbertson & Fritz have seized the opportunity to
Cars fight back as they zigzag men. The enemy got clogged and Nazi milltary journal Wehrmacht in eyes and that smiling voice assuring Insist that India, fighting for.
miles away-nowhere near us, They technical limit for long range guns don't even know we're here, and the old order, is not enough. across the desert. The Italians bogged in the mud. It was an earlier 1037 that 155 miles would be theme that I was all right. That was No Gandhi and Congress argue that consider their air weapon the Passchendaele,⠀⠀
best thing they have got against In the last war breastplates ap made in the "shrink barrel" process they're "rotten shots anyway. India is willing to fight for the tanks and cars. A thing high peared for a short time. Some Ger- Such a gun could theoretically throw you can't leave this place now. You'd Another double roar from behind. British Empire providing the up has the advantage in this man machine-gunners wore them, a 2501b, shell for this distance, though gat popped gar
They were generally unpopular, it would require relining at the end and the captain suddenly shouted Imperial Government is pre-
wildly above the rear, Weve got Either they were so massive as to be of 50 rounds.. pared to state, unequivocally,
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What is more, he remains persona grata with the British Government, despite the incon-
helmet came back in the last war as
what India's position is to be the freedom of speech which is a burden, or so light that they were Is there such a weapont Doos Big one of their 778. T'm sure of 1. In after the War is over. The the ostensible object of his fast useless. Indeed, bullet passed through. Bertha II. really exlat? Yes, and no tery HQ. I took a look out over the. Mahatma has so far received no la perhaps, not so likely to re-it carried part of the metal into the I believe there IS such a weapon, but allent, dirty stretch of desert to the no mere army artillerist fires It Dr. far ridge where the Hailang were. gard his new threat with that wound.
The dust was appalling. The white satisfaction to this query: Lord sentimental horror, which gained It may be possible to overcome the Goebbels is the gunner. He propels rocks were blurred in the unlight. Linlithgow has offered a palm. leaf which Gandhi and his for him such spectacular vic-weight problem now. It is said that the propaganda that is designed to Files buzzed about my hoss, and adherents have turned down, tories. We sympathise with bakelite is strong enough to with- put the wind up us. He throws Into The officer was alcking dies from hals India and her anxiety for the stand shrapnel. It is certainly. Dght the stratosphere, this story that here hands. His face puckered and He is a terrible gun which can drop a talked quickly with eyes wandering This latest fast threatened by future, but we also appreciate enough.
crawled from he dug out he star Gandhi suggests that he is again that even India and her problems THE Germans are said to have gos shell into our midst at any hour of mads if to withdraw, and as t the day or night without the pre saying "It's pretty tough the frat turning to the old technique for cannot take first place over the a new Big Berlin. Its reported range gaming his
he will task confronting the Mother is 159 miles, which is more than twice liminary warning which an air raid time but you refused to it. I be well sdy
that Country that of winning the as good as the old Big Bertha which I take the view that there s been nice having your Tell the major
no Big Bertha in real fact, but Dr. I think we bagged a 77% 86 lonel the Mother, Countr matred wart rainst the tyranny of shelled Faris from 73 miles off in Goebbels imaginary-oner-dosat disuse lang, 1 saltand indeed bede
1917. She threw a shell of 205lb. dirty work perhaps even better, over the ridge to fill the majo In a life and death struggle for dictatorships.
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