Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1942
Allies Crack Alamein Line, Rule Air In Egypt;
U.S. Shakes Up Fleet, Blasts 4 Jap Ships
Fleet Shells Matruh
As Great Drive Starts
Fliers See Allies Pour Through Breach in Drive to Clear
Mediterranean for Assault on Axis Coasts in Europe
By DON WHITEHEAD
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 24.—(API—The British Eighth Army cracked through German
Marshal Erwin Rommel's Alamein line before dawn today, front line dispatch**
said tonight, after opening the long-expected Allied offensive with the aid at sea of a
roaring fleet of new type American-made light warships and American airmen in the
thick of the desert battle.
What is likely to be the decisive battle for the Mediterranean was joined with the
Axis forces of Marshal Erwin
Rommel last night in the}
light of a full moon when
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander's
Allied army moved forward
along the front 80 miles west
of Alexandria.
Advices from advanced air
bases tonight said Allied airmen
already appeared to have
clear-cut superiority in the air space
even before the outset of what
doubtless -will be a tough, bloody
struggle.
MATRUH BOMBARDED
R.A.F. Raiders
Blast Milan
By Daylight
Vichy Charges British
Plane Machine-Gunned
Montlucon, Injuring 3
By The Associated
LONDON, Oct. 24. (Sunday)—A
large force of R.A.F. Lancaster
bombers made the first British daylight
attack on military objectives
in Milan, Italy, yesterday, it was
authoritatively stated, here early
today, several hours after the Vichy
News Agency charged that British
Bombers had machine-gunned a
town in the unoccupied zone of
France.
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