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Bitter Flghting Continnes in Tnnisia
Pace of Advaoce Slower '
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London, April 29th.
THE BATTLE FOR THE TUNISIAN BRIDGEHEAD SHOWS
NO SLACKENING, AND ON THE FRONT AS A WHOLE THE
ALLIED FORCES ARE SLOWLY BUT GAINING GROUND.
ALLIED TUNISIAN DISPATCHES TO-DAY REPORT THAT
THE FIGHTING HAS INCREASED IN FEROCITY ALL ALONG
THE BATTLE-FRONT, ADDING THAT THE FIERCER THE
ALLIED ATTACKS, THE MORE THEY DISCOVER THE
ENEMY’S DETERMINATION TO RESIST, NOT ONLY NEGA-
TIVELY, BUT WITH VIOLENT COUNTER-ATTACKS, AND
SO, THE DEEPER THE ALLIED ARMIES BITE INTO THE
ENEMY DEFENCES THE MORE DIFFICULT IT BECOMES TO
ADVANCE.
In spite of this, however,
both the U. S. Army in the
north, and the British First
Army and General Giraud’s
French in the south have furt-
her progresses to report. The
enemy fought hard yesterday,
clinging to every position and
vantage point with dogged de-
termination, but several strong
points fell into Allied hands,
and some more of the enemy’s
tanks were accounted for.
FURTHER PROGRESS
The fiercest fighting has
been going on in the Medjes el
Bab 'area, particularly to the
north, about halfway between
Medjes and Tebourba. The day
before yesterday men of the
First Army launched an attack
against an important German
held mountain ' south of the
Medjes-Teböurba road. They
had got to within 400 feet of
the top, when the Germans
yesterday afternoon launched
a powerful counter-attack
with the support of 30 tanks.
In the fighting which follow-
ed, a number of these were
destroyed, including some of
the enemy's big ones, and the
attack was thrown back. But
the Germans came immediat-
ely back with another counter-
attack, in just as great a
strength as before, and with
even more tanks, and this time
our men had to yield ground.
SOUTH QUIET
Very hard fighting is also in
progress in the area farther
north, where the American Se
cond Corps is fighting its way
nearer Mateur, both in the
Sidi Nsir area, and also along
the Sedjenane-Mateur road.
Officially, there is nothing
to report from the southern
sector of the front, which in-
cludes the Pont du Fahs and
Enfidaville areas. Our armour
retains its hold in the Pont du
Fahs sector, and according to
the latest reports the French
column advancing from the
south has cut the Pont du
Fahs east road at one point.
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AIR ARM ACTIVE
The men of the First Army,
coming southwards from
Goubellat, are now only a few
miles from the town, the fall
of which an unofficial message
received late this afternoon
seems to indicate. There is on
the other hand nothing much
to report from the Eighth Ar-
my’s front, Gen. Montgomery’s
men just continuing to conso-
lidate their positions in the En-
fidaville area.
Allieá aircraft have given
untiring support to all opera-
tions undertaken by the
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Snpplies Flow To
N. Africa
London. Howard Marshall,
BBC correspondent at Allied
HQ in North Africa, in a dis-
patch to-day gives an interest-
ing sidelight on our supply
problem in one particular part
of this region.
In order to get supplies and
war matefial through to our
forces, he says, it was necess-
ary to build two roads, each
about 12 miles long as the crow
flies, but about twice that di-
stance, when one had crossed
the intervening hills, gullies,
rivers and ravines. These roads
our sappers built in five days,
and under fire too. On one of
them was a bridge with one
100 foot-span, and two 80-fööt
spans.
Another of our correspond-
ents says that the population
of Tripoli is now getting a
greater bread ration than at
any time since the war start-
ed. It amounts to almost half
a pound of white bread a day,
and it is real bread and not the
maggoty brown stuff the Itali-
ans were handing out before
the arrival of our troops.
Siok Axis Trawler
Off Holland.
London. Before dawn this
morning, our light coastal
forces engaged the enemy off
the Dutch coast.
Here they spotted an armed
enemy trawler, which they hit
again and again till she sank.
Our vessels all came back, and
only one of them slightly da-
maged.
”RAF“ Fliers Lay
Mines in Baltic
London. A big force of RAF
bombers flew out from Britain
last night to lay mines in ene-
my waters — in the words of
the official communiqué — on
a very large scale, particularly
in the Baltic. At the same time
a formation of our heavy bom-
bers flew to raid Wilhelms-
haven. The night’s work cost
us 23 aircraft.
The RAF is laying mines on
a greater scale than ever be-
fore. This has not only a bear-
ing on the war against the U-
boats, but is also of consider-
able importance to our Russian
allies, slowing down the en-
emy flow of supplies through
the Baltic to the German east-
ern front.
Big formations of RAF fight
ers are reported to have flown
out over the Channel this aft-
ernoon. One of the few raid-
ers to appear over southem
England this morning was shot
down.
Little Change in
Far East
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London. Apart from General
MacArthur’s long range bom-
bers keeping up their routine
offensive against Japanese ba-
ses in New Guinea, New Bri-
tainn and New Ireland, there
is little to report from the S.-
West Pacific, except the sink-
ing of two Japanese cargo
ships in the Aru Sea yesterday.
Rommel In
France
London. Informed sources
from inside Europe reports
that German Marshal Rommel
is now in France. He is believ-
ed to have left North Africa
on March 19th.