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waiting to see in order to of the relieving beauty often found gain time." They make in the Sahara or our own South- "only a pretence" of fall-western desert. Except along the ing in with German poli-turquoise waters break over jag. cies policies which would ged white rocks and roll in

sandy beach, as at Mersa Matruh, relegate them to the role where ages ago Cleopatra used

Here is what it is like when of obedient serfs of their 50 bathing with Antony.

Distances are staggering. From you reach the absolute front: stark ugliness. German masters. Their

Our little party of two corres- From Solum southeastward runs Cairo to Solum is 375 miles as the

bomber flies. From Solum

મ to pondents, British conducting old organisations have a ridge sharply dividing been dissolved and pro-plateau. The only towns are sun-

Benghazi it is almost as far. From officer and a chauffeur, found the coastal plain from the desert Benghazi to Tripoli it is nearly main body of the striking force of Over these vast ex- the campaign in a wide sandy hibited, yet they refuse to baked settlements paced along the 600 miles.

a strenuous go in under the petty ailway which hugs the coast and parises both the British and Axis plain at dusk after

highway, now badly marked by generals must move men, muni-day, during which, divided into So when three columns, they had driven Quislings and promoted British naval guns, which carries tions. food and water. traitors placed in authori-on westward from the railhead at you read that one side or the other the Axis forces from Egypt,

miles, advances, say, thirty

it except one body which held out! Mersa Matruh. After Mersa ty over them. Wholesale Matruh there is not a whole build-means little.

In Hellfire Pass-that two-mile Journeying from Cairo to the winding gash near Solum which arrests have failed to pre-ing among all these towns. They

British were utterly wrecked in last Win front you see

activity leads from the escarpment down vent sabotage; strikes do ter's fighting.

everywhere, but for military rea-to the coastal plain, The officers! take place. Norwegian On the escarpment-the desert sons little of it can be described mess was a lean-to tent, furnished homeholders refuse to plateau-there is nothing but hun- here. Far out in the desert you with folding tables and

dreds of miles of dead plain. come upon advanced headquarters (pitched against the side of take in Germans seeking There is no water except from so well hidden you might walk cook ruck. The cook was concoct- to over it without knowing it. Deeping a satisfying dinner from bully lodgings and persist in rare brackish wells, nothing

pore beef, canned salad and canned. make human life possible,

below the ground officers Even boycotting the few pro- the Bedouins, who apparently over maps and order new dis-fruit, washed down with

could scratch out a living from positions for the men up forward Whisky and sodas were served in German Norwegians.

messages inform our hongur, the surface of the moon, have not as spluttering

The officers were tired; some of tried to live much in this waste. them of the shifting situation.

In another dugout a high R.A.F. them were unshaven; most of them|| Nazism is finding it a Occasionally you encounter a herd tough job to remold this of gazelles, which flourish, in the commander plots the movements had not slept for forty-eight hours, He is in and they did not know when they barest desert; scorpions, and dead- of his flers on map. sturdy people to its paty tle vipers--the asp which almost minute-by-minute contact would sleep again, for they were tern of subservience. Cleopatra put to her bosom. Little with them, now ordering a bomb to move out again that evening ing "squadron to go to the aid of for another crack at the Germans. some British column having a It was rather amusing to find There is evident in these

hard time, now dispatching fight- the major of the papers an uneasiness as to This is the season of the Kham-ers to shoot down, and drive off Regiment those famous Guarts HONG KONG what will happen in Nor sin; that hot wind which sweeps German bombers punishing a turned out officers in the world-

northward from the depths of British ground unit. ·

with a two days' beard and circles way when the tide turns this desiccated plain and is

Further forward you call on of reddish mud around his mouth the general who is directly com- and eyes where he had rubbed his against the whole dicta-wilting as the breath from

furnace. It punishes and depresses, manding the British columns torial system.

The Bedouins say that five days which are trying to counter the

else is living.

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