CAIRO--Allied troops are battering steadily into the El Alamein line and deserters and prisoners pouring in from the enemy lines, many of whom fought in Russia, admit that the British artillery barrages are worse than anything they endured before Leningrad. Moscow, and Smolensk, front dispatches said tonight.

German and Italian casualties are piling up heavily but they are counter-attacking fiercely and have managed to slow down the general Allied advance, according to report.

The Allies are littering the desert with burned-out Axis tanks, rounding up many prisoners and reducing gun emplacements with bayonet charges in a massed advance reminiscent of the Western front drives of World War I