Current Events July 4, 1942: HEAVY FIGHTING NEAR ALEXANDRIA:

              The Galveston Daily News

                                     GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1942.

NAZIS WITHDRAW FROM BRITISH DRIVES

Allies Slash at Rommel's

Rebuffed Forces at End

Of El Alamein Battle Line

Numerous Prisoners Captured;

Axis Lose Guns While Trying to

Dig Into Fixed Positions

CAIRO, July 3. /P British forces tonight slashed at axis

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's rebuffed forces on the northern"

and of the El Alamein line, 62 miles west of Alexandria, capturing

numerous prisoners and destroying a number of guns.

which the axis troops were trying to dig in on fixed positions.

(The British radio, quoting a Cairo dispatch, said tanks,

artillery and British infantry moved against the axis late in

the day but the -enemy "withdrew

rapidly from all engagements. The

CBS. did not elaborate on the

action.) .

The rumble of heavy guns could"

be heard in Alexandria," but the

fact that the fighting kept more

or less static indicated the reinforced

imperial forces had brought

the axis advance to a halt, at least

temporarily.

Dispatches from the front said

bayonet and hand-grenade fighting

continued throughout Thursday

night while most of the tanks, were

withdrawn from the . battle for

overhauling and servicing. :

Reorganizing after their first re-

pulse since the British lost To-

bruk June 21, the; main body : of

Rommel's armored forces was still

west of the El Alamein defenses.

There was no Indication they had

renewed their powerful drive

against Alexandria and the Nile

delta.

Patrols Scour

Tropical Area

For Axis Bases

Indented Coastline

Said Logical and

Strategic Location

for U-Boat Harbors

United States Army Headquarters,

Panama Canal Zone,

July 3. (AP) Army and navy patrols

hunted along the tropical

Boasts of Central America today

for hideaway axis submarine

bases following the arrest

of 20 suspected spies and enemy

agents in British Honduras and the

Panama Canal Zone