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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 bo kept out of cars, eyes, or boots..

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Before the sandstorm I had warfare. From a small mound acon more little phases of the you can see for miles over the desert war. Passing from comparatively flat terrain.

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. seen for miles, except at dawn, ing hostilities into Mussolini's when the dew is wet on every-

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 This is not the primitive war

that they have had a much Beyond the ridge was a dip 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 ace camela, plans while it is about. Usually nesses come from

stumbled up against a concealed on to any scratch. or mules, or native soldiers. the Italians, after a prolonged faston

the observation pit. Instead there tanks, scrutiny, drop their bombs on an Flies infect the scratch and cause #andbagged parapet and reached

area of no consequence, and the prolonged festering. amoured cars, and aeroplanes, R.A.F. by their activity keep

"Hullo, you're just in time," and even before these can combat camps fairly safe.

that only the skilled observer someone said. He was young, sandy-haired, Blight-bearded, THE prenx "pecial to the Telegraph an enemy they must combat On the ground hand-to-hand knows what is going to happen with sun sorts on the back of his te used by the "Hongkong Telegraph' to

fighting has so far been rare, next. As witness my experience hands and a captain's pips on Indicate news which is sirietly copyright | desert conditions. under the provisions of the Telecommunl-

Occasionally a patrol moves out at an observation post lately; his shoulder. "Anything doing?" cations Ordinance, 1918. Buch news **

British forces are scattered in into the still night to bring in an The observation post was just I asked, straightening up. bears the Indication "UP" is received in Ilongkong on the date of pubication by the United Press Associations, who these motorized units over most Italian lorry or tank laid up over a sand ridge.

"Keep down. They can acc serve all rights and forbid republication,

They may I followed the marked rocks you when you do that. Yea, of the Egyptian western desert during the day. arrangement.

happen to meet a party of the between the sage-brush, groping there will be something doing." Each fighting unit makes enemy out for the samo prize, forward with a tin hat on the He was crouched before a break THE GANDHI TECHNIQUE

its own front line.

but the Italiane rarely move by back of my head. Flies crawled in the sandbags, with feld night.

about my nose and sand swirled glasses before his eyes. The MYSTICAL, spectacular The Italians have not ventured Mahatma Gandhi has indicated into Egypt over the barbed wire

Most casualtics are from the around my eyes.

roar of our guns was intensified. weather rather than the war. 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."

From somewhere behind I "Funny," the captain_sald, "the

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another of his fasts. This time British armoured car patrols it is for "freedom of specch"; [move into Libya through “breaka But his objectives embrace far in the wire," spacos cut through wider issues. Gandhi has at certain strategic points, and always had one iden 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 The Mahatma still makes this the Italians as upon the British, his burning Ideal and

one and the men consider it a lucky respects him for his ardent and break when they encounter an passionate consistency. The Italian tank or two. Their cars, measure of success which has faster and fitted with good anti- hitherto attended Gandhi's tank guns, zigzag about the passive resistance has left his usually retreating tanks and let opponents bowildered; but per them have it. haps their bewilderment would

be less if they fully appreciated

sympathy of the intelligentsia. Eyes in the Air

What is more, he remains

The Italians have been trying.

Is There

BIG

Hes;

honour's thought

The trouble in this war is

New BERTHA?

Reigns solely in the breast of every'

man;

Message for the Major

I stopped beside him and peered out upon the barren desert, but there was nothing in sight but a fow poles, ja burnt-out Itällan plane, and a

truck.

Now all the youth of England are which is a modest size compared with thought I should see something."-

on Are,

the 2000lb, shell that the German I confessed, and he replied, "You And silken dalliance in the wardrobe howitzers threw against Antwerp, will. Thoir batteries are ever on that Their ob- Big Bertha I did not do much ridge 2,000 yards away. Now thrive the armourers,-and-damage, and she was expensive: She About 1,000 yards. They've got their

servation post is just on the right. had to be relined after 30 rounds. encampment camouflaged near the

I have heard a great deal about them."

battery. Wait till our guns start on

Big Bertha II. Her shells are alleged Suddenly there was a flash from KINO HENRY V.

to be 0601b.; and to be fired 50,000ft. the ridge. We heard the high moan- I ducked. THE armourers were key men up into the stratosphere. Six months ing whistle overhead.

"There they go," said the captain, were promised that Big "looking for our third battery." The gunner is allowed one hit

shell, and he usually indeed. They deserved to thrive, ao wo

Bertha II. would be' hauled along! The

flashed 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 deid kale- "That's their battery on the ridge. borrowed notions of "Cricket," during which every shot was a Engineering Union of those from there she would shell London, phone and called to Battery H.Q.

The story now goes that the RAF., You can let them have it." cannot hit a man when he's hit, and looking inside the tank days. Their work was highly

being aware that Big Bertha II, fa He swung round and resumed his observation. There was another one- down. This, of course, is only one afterwards I noted the devastat-paid, it was so vital. For a mounted on rallway truck, have two-three from our guns, then two contribution to the Mahatma's ing result of the anti-tank faulty weapon or a suit of bombed to pieces every bridge over from the Italians. "Now we might success. One must also re- bullets, which had splintered armour that was weak in the the myriad canals, that separate get it, he smiled. "When our guns momber that he is pleading into a million fragments on joints might mean the death of Walcheren from the Dutch mainland. open fire on their 77% on the ridge they usually turn their stuff over a cause, which, in these, en-piercing the tank walls. the King himself. That might Also, the R.AF. have bombed every hero somewhere,"

junction leading from Germany into "Do they know you're here?” lightened days, commands the

mean the end of the battle-and Holland, If this be true, then It seems They've got an idea. There they that the R.A.F. are a good deal more gud plum the ridge, which was A column of sand and rubble

covered in a cloud of dust. The The armourers are coming back, worried about Big Bertha II, than

young captain noticed my alarm and persona grafz with the British their air weapon against the Many things are coming back. The any gunner is.

reassured me. There was another Government, despite the incon

helmet cams back in the last war as Of course, it is not true. If Big 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

something farther back," he said, success expected. Their tech- went out with the musket, came would have got there-long ago. And

He rang through to the battery. jected them.

shell There was another burst along the nique is to catch a small group back. Now vizors may return; even if the Germans wanted to 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 us. I felt Gandhi has added another string desert with a large flock of only a super horse power chariot.

has Walcheren. What's wrong with they were getting near. to his bow. While willing to planes repeatedly diving and The trouble about armour

You're all right.” shouted the cop- concede the righteousness of dropping incendiary bombs and always been its weight. It immoble Calais?

I imagine that Big Bertha, Itain without removing his field lises. Remember the fearful slaughter Britain's fight against Nazism,

The salvos seemed to be glasses. 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 V.'s English, and Welsh bow- Professor Kaffer, He wrote in the membered nothing but the sand in my have seized the opportunity to insist that India, fighting for

Cars fight back as they zigzag men. The enemy got clogged and Nozi mlitary journal Wehrmacht in eyes and that stalling voice assuring miles awayowhere near 25, 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 1937 that 155 miles would be theme that I was all right. That was 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 "shrunk barrel" process, they're rotten shots anyway. India is willing to fight for the tanks and cars. A thing high yeared for a short time. Some Ger. Such a gun could theoretically throw you can't leave this place now. You'd

get popped, and

from behind British Empire providing the up has the advantage in this man machine-gunners wore them. a 25016, shell for this distance though Another double roar Imperial Government is pre-

They were generally unpopular. It would require relining at the end and the captain suddents shouted wildly above the roar we've got. Elther they were so massive as to be of 50 rounds," pared to state, unequivocally, | Mus

the freedom of peach which is a burden, or so light that they were Is there such a weapon? Does Big one of their 175 I'm sure of In

some excitement he telephoned Bat what India's, position is to the ostensible object of his fast, useless. Indeed, bullet passed through Bertha II., really exist? Yes, and no. tory H.QL took a look out over the after the War is over. The is, perhaps, not so likely to re it carried part of the metal into the I believe there IS such a westion, but allent, dirty, stretch of desert to the Mahatma has so far received no gard his new threat with that wound.

no mere army arillerist fires it..Dr. far ridge where the Italians were.. 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 gunder. He propels rocks were blurred in the sunlight. Linlithgow has offered a palm for him such spectacular vic weight problem now. It is said that the propaganda that is designed to Files buzzed about my nose and exes. leaf which Gandhi and his adnerents have turned down tories. We sympathise with bakelite in strong enough to with put the wind up us. He throws into The officer was flicking files from his India and her anxiety for the stand shrapnel. It is certainly light the stratosphere this story that here hands. Hip face puckered, and he teikis a terrible gun which can drop a talked quickly with eyes wandering This latest fast threatened by fature, but we also appreciate enough. Gandhi suggests that he is again that even India and her problems THE Cermans are said to have got the day or night without the pre-saying

hell into our midst at any hour of made as if to withdrew, and a 1. crawled from the dug out hİKALA

If pretty tough, the turning to the old technique for cannot take first place over the a new Big Bertha. Its reported range timinary warning which an air raid time; but you get used to Is T gaining his ends. But he will task confronting the Mother is 185 miles, which is more than twice gives. I take the view that there is been niet having you. Tell the major be well advised to realise that Country that of winning the good as the old Big Bertha which no By Bertha in reol fact, but Dr. I think we bagged a 17. Soon the Mother Country Immersed war against the tyranny of shelled Paris from 71 miles off in Goebbelsavimaginary op does he "So long," Immid, and trudged back in a fire and death struggle for dictatorships

by 1917. She threw a shell of 2651b, dirty work perhaps even better lover, the ridges to tell the major

At the present