European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pilish mommies fan out across Rocky desert country sooth and West of the vital Suez canal in War games which six months ago would have meant trouble in the midle Suez defense test boosts British prestige great centum icon tanks crouched in a Rocky Wadi As the 90degree egyptian Sun flooded in the Turret each sat a Man with earphones the zest of the Crews lounged in the Shade of the tanks Low one Man read a tattered copy of the British Magazine Soldier others tried to beside at least two of the tanks a Man squatted in the Sand brewing up the inevitable cup of to ajar tin equally desolate Wadi 100 five More tanks did the ringing a Small Barren Basin their Lowig barrelled guns elevated but just under the were eight More tanks of the they were facing lined the a mountainous Jebel of crumbled Yards ahead and Between so nothing Green grew or probably Ever since the whole area was thrown up fro the Bottom of the red sea As Little As years there were no no no cac Pmj not even a Only the Bare and the Sun when anything most bloody awful place to fight a War i grunted capt John of the Lancaster As he scanned the Jed Mountain ahead of him with Field just like the 8th army desert War in bloody realistic Maneu realism was exactly what the British Tad in mind for operation As divisions of the Suez canal zones de clanked out of the zone a few into the Eastern egyptian Des Maneu vers were permitted under the 1s36 since disavowed by the mommies move out of zone to Sharpen combat readiness in egyptian desert by Sanderson and Henry Poluzzi it had been More than a year since the British had moved out of the zone to prac Tice the desert warfare they brought to such perfection in the harried years of in the past 12 months almost equally harassed British canal zone troops have had other things on their take for a falstaff looking Man in shorts and swagger stick with red Moust chios which Are actually visible from the Gribble took Over an infantry company at Ismail a last that was a big Day in the canal among other 150 police and irregulars armed with rifles barricaded themselves in the Ismail a police in the first scribbles major was Gribble took Over and with his company right behind him charged a Supply ship moves slowly up the red sea and into the sex canal As the British the defences of the vital waterway which links Europe to East Africa and Southeast through a rain of bullets into the that ended but there were 55 both the British and the egyptians would like to forget those tense were bloody glad to Stop playing police Gribble and the since the july 23 coup of maj Gen Mohammed have been increasingly viewing the Maneu vers were More than 50 egyptian army including the chief of staff who was personally seeped around by the British it Gen sir Francis operation which ranged Over Square at times Halfway to might have set the whole Middle East on fire if it had been held six months now it passed almost with out comment in the Arab press and there were no staged entirely West and mostly South of triangles was not designed to test the actual defense of the canal and the great storage machine shops and depots which Dot the forming the Backbone of Britain entire Middle East the exercise was merely a test of and commanders abilities to live and fight in the same kind of mountains and endless wasteland which stretch Miles to soviet russian caucasus not an overlong last desert War ranged Over More than officers and men baked in the noon Sun and started shivering at 5 pm As the Sun dropped Over the horizon in 15 like rats of 1942 they got Only a gallon of water a Day continued on Page Viii feature Section