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BIG AIR BATTLE ON

EGYPTIAN

FRONTIER

A BIG AIR BATTLE on the Egyptian-

Tripoli frontier is recorded in a communique LOST from Royal Air Force Headquarters in Cairo HOURS

yesterday.

The communique says "a strong force of IN AIR South African bombers yesterday attacked and dispersed enemy motor transport and armoured fighting vehicles in the frontier

area.

'A large number of bombs fell

among the vehicles. Many direct TEN DAYS

hits were observed and fires of cons derable dimensions broke

out. The last

formation of our

attacking aircraft, with its fighter escort, was engaged by German and Italian fighters.

send

"In the ensuing air combats one Messerschmitt 109 and one

IN OPEN

BOAT

Twelve survivors of a British

FACTORIES

Sunday work should be discontinued in the air- craft industry except for maintenance and repair of plant and other essen- tial purposes, states the Select Committee National Expenditure in

Italian Cant 50 were destroyco.shiv which was torpedoed in the statement

on

a report on air factories.

This recommendation follows a that high wages and two of the and others badly damaged.

main causes of absenteeism which They One Italian aircraft of the Atlantic recently have been landed Sunday labour are

at an cast Canadian port.

to be causing the loss of 79" type was shot down in the

had spent 10 days in a

lifeboat seems

thousands of man-hours every fron ler zone.

before being picked up.

week. Representatives of aircraft

harbour

Blazing Furiously

All of them showed marks

of

for in-

"During Saturday night R.A F. bombers raided Tripull, Benghazi | thric ordeal. Only three were able firms bad said that absenteeism

bombs to walk. The others had swollen was the most serious problem.

There will always be a minority At Tripoli Barce.

whether were dropped on shipping in the feet and salt-water sores.

Despite this, all were cheerful of deliberate absentees anet on the Spanish Mole Muny bursts were observand one young engineer declar-there is Sunday work or not, the ed on and near ships both in the rd. "This has not got me down report says, particularly as wages

ever greater proportion harbour and alongside the quays. It's a grand life at sen, and I'm beyond a certain point go in an

going back."

Some of the survivors told how, [come-tax. while they were in their tiny life- £7 A Week Average "At Zuara, one large ship, be-boat, they dreamed about the food

The average earnings in air- hieved to be part of the remnants and beer which had been in the

Others spoke of ferait firms had not been found to as had been of the convoy successfully attack-torpedoed ship.

catch seagulls when be as extravagant Arin and trying to ed by the Flea Air

supposed. In one firm of aero en- Royal Air Force in the Central their food began to run out.

gine manufacturers there night Mediterranean, was seen blazing

be 20 men who earned between fur ously, and the ship later ex-

£12 and £13 in any given week, receiving ploded with great violence.

and perhaps 100 men

Stuck To His Post

All paid tribute to the chief

"At Benghazi, both the har-wireless officer of the ship, who between £11 and £12. bour and shipping were bomb-stuck to his post, sending off calls ed, while at Barce of storage for help until the tanks and buildings were des-down. troyed.

But the average wage for the vessel went highest-grade worker in the same

"The nerodrome at Gerbini was bombed by the Fleet Air Arm during Saturday night. In addi- already mentioned tion to those one other British aircraft is miss- ing.

"The crew of one British air- craft, reported lost in the Medi- terranean on September 12, have now been brought to safety."

Reuter.

Later Statement

additional communique issued from R.A.F. Headquarters last night in Cairo says:-

An

to

His chief assistant said: "There

Lim was plenty of time tur leave, so he must have stayed by choice."

Originally there were 15 men An Arab seanian In the boat. died on the second day, how- ever, and on the next day an- other Arab and the cook died. Describing his life in the toss- third engineer ing lifeboat the

Arm did not appear to exceed £7 per week, and many thousands of work people were employed in its factories.

had The Sub-Committee evidence of firms in the aircraft deliberately paying Industry their operatives more than the agreed district rates, and by so doing disturbing other firms in that district.

The Select Committee recom said: "We allowed ourselves one-mends that the Ministry of Air- quarter of a cup of water datly. craft Production should do every- We had lots of biscuits, but to- thing in its power to ensure that wards the end were too dry to eat factories working either commer- cially or on u management basis them.

wage observe district federation rates and keep their. bonus per- centages in line with those of their neighbours,

"Waves swept over us. filling the boat with water and covering I think another day "Further details of yesterday's us with salt. (Sunday) air operations over the or two would have finished us.

"We were pretty weak when we frontier Desert show that in addition to were picked up, but not too weak ship the destruction of enemy aircraft to cheer when the rescue in this afternoon's came in sight." mentioned communique, two German air-

zone of the

Western

news There is so far. no

Evidence tended to show that some firms are short of labour. One firm stated that it required a a thousand thousand men and of women in the next few months. craft of the Junkers 87 type were another lifeboat in which there but saw little prospect of obtaining destroyed by anti-aircraft fire were 25 men. and another was compelled to make a forced landing, the crew being captured,

The attack

by our fighters on the Gambut landing ground was very successful, a number of enemy aircraft being severe. ly damaged.

"Last night the attack on this landing ground was resumed by the Fleet Air Arm. Their bomb- ing resulted in eight enemy air- craft being left in flames and some half dozen others damaged."

Reuter.

THINK OF 1944, FARMERS ARE TOLD

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In the last two were four million perens were ploughed. and the Ministry were asking for another two million acros this year.

"In view of the shipping posi- tion, I do not think these six million acres are sufficient and we must continue with the good work," he continued.

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