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Allies Launeh New
Tunisian Offensive
Exeellent Progress Reported
London, May 6. — The latest
communique from the Allied
HQ in Tunisia announces that
the British First Army and the
American Second Corps have
launched a general offensive on
the whole Tunisian front from
south-west to the farthest north,
and says that the offensive has
so far made excellent progress.
The situation has developed
rapidly and favourably since
the British First carried the
Bou Aukas height, dominating
the Tunis plain. An earlier
communique from General
Eisenhower’s HQ today had
given the good news that the
British had captured Jebel Bou
Aukas, the hill, which for some
time past has been the main
barrier to the Allied advance
across the plain leading to
Tunis itself, the First Army
having been held up several
days by the enemy’s stubborn
defence of this strong point.
Yesterday morning British
gunners laid down a fierce ar-
tillery barrage, under cover of
which our troops swarmed up
the hill side, and after fierce
fighting, often hand to hand,
which went on all day, a mes-
sage was flashed back to Gen-
eral Anderson’s HQ at sundown,
that the top of the hill had been
gained and prisoners taken.
The general offensive an-
nounced in today’s latest com-
munique, is reported to be a
direct result of the First Army’s
capture of Jebel Bou Aukas. It
started this morning, eight
miles east of Medjes el Bab,
where hundreds of guns opened
the game by laying down an
artillery barrage, followed by
infantry attacks in great
strength.
Allied war correspondents in
their dispatches tonight say
that on the Medjes front and
further ncrth is now concen-
trated the biggest number of
Bizerta Shelled
London, May 6. — A spe-
cial announcement from Al-
giers radio late tonight re-
ports that the British First
Army has stormed and cap-
tured the village of Massi-
cault, on the main Medjes
E1 Bab-Tunis road, and only
17 miles south-west of Tunis
itself. A large number of
German and Italian soldiers
have surrendered.
An unofficial report reach-
ing here simultaneously from
a Tunisian correspondent
places the Americans only
half mile from Ferryville
and as already shelling Bi-
zerta.
guns, aircraft and men yet to
initiate an offensive action in
Tunisia, and declare that the
attacks launched this morning
had all the distinctive features
of the irresistible attacks of the
British Eighth Army, as Mont-
gomery was chasing Rommel
all the way from E1 Alamein to
Enfidaville. The enemy how-
ever, has brought up more guns
and men, and ferocious fighting
is raging all along the front.
Further north it is the same
story, where the Second Ame-
rican Corps launched their of-
fensive north of Lake Achkel,
in their first assault carying the
important height Jebel Chen-
iki. The Americans arfe practic-
ally on the shores of Lake Bi-
zerta, while another American
column, pushing on from Ma-
teur to Tebourba, has also made
further progress. Here also, the
enemy continues to fight back,
and to organise defensive posi-
tions in his rear, and certainly
his use of mines is as lavish as
ever.
i Wreckage Of Plane l
The above picture taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps reveals
the remains of the plane in which General Andrews and thirteen
other passengers met death.
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13 Died With General Andrews
♦
Forty-foot visibility and the fact that one of the pen-
insulas they crossed on Iceland’s coast was “simply too
high” accounted for Monday afternoon’s plane crash in
which General Andrews and 13 others were killed. Sergeant
George Eisel, sole survivor of the tragedy, told reporters
whien interviewed at a military hospital Thursday afternoon.
Details have now been released both from the Europ-
ean Theatre of Operations Headquarters staff in London and
from the War Department in Washington, revealing the list
of dead in the crash over a remote part of Iceland Monday
afternoon to include:
General Frank M. Andrews, commander of U.S. Army
forces in the European Theatre of Operations, at its London
Headquarters.
Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of the Methodist Episcopal
church of America, coming to Iceland as part of a world
tour to acquaint himself with the work of chaplains with
the forces everywhere.
Brigadier General Charles H. Barts, of Walker, Minne-
sota, chief of staff to General Andrews in the European
Theatre of Operations.
Colonel Morrow Krum of Lake Forest, Illinois.
Chaplain Colonel Fred Chapman of Grove Hill, Alabama.
Major Robert Humphrey of Lynehburg, Virginia.
Major Theodore Totmad, of Jamestown, New York.
Captain Joseph Johnston, of Los Angeles, California.
Captain Robert Shannon, of Washington, Iowa.
Captain James Gott, of Berea, Kentucky.
Sergeant Loyd Wier, of McRae, Arkansas.
Sergeant Kenneth Jeffers, of Oriskaney Falls’ New York
Sergeant Paul McQueen, of Endwell, New York.
(Details by survivor on page 4.)
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