Word: afrika
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...Commandos' organizer, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, and youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
...Afrika Korps were distributed on the Egyptian-Libyan border in crafty ambiguity. Colonial Commander Lieut. General Erwin Rommel had disposed them so that they were ready to attack and they were ready to defend...
...George V, obliging, approved the principle that each Governor General shall fly a distinctive flag- as fast as these can be designed. Specifically His Majesty approved the brand new South African Jack. Design: the Royal Crest on a blue field, above "Union of South Africa," below Unie van Suid-Afrika. First to fly the new governor's flag of British-Dutch South Africa will be her new Governor General, George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, great & good friend of His Majesty, owner of ruined Kenilworth Castle, onetime chairman of British Broadcasting Corp. Not eager to be first...