Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Current Events November 23, 1942; BATTEL FOR TUNIS BEGINS / RED OFFENSIVE BEGINS NEAR STALINGRAD / BUNA DUE TO FALL:

          MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL
                 MANSFIELD, OHIO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1942

BATTLE FOR TUNIS BEGINS
SOVIET OFFENSIVE ROARS ON

Americans, British
And French Strike
Stiff Blow at Bizerte
Morocco Reports Axis Prisoners Being
Brought in as Allies Hurl Big
Attack at Rommel's Lines
(By Associated Press)
LONDON—The 'British First army, with American
and French support, was reported today to have
launched a big attack against the German-Italian positions
in the defense perimeter of Bizerte and Tunis
where Marshal Envin Rommel, one-time German
master of of African desert warfare, was said to be
in command with perhaps a part of his Africa Corps.
The radio in Allied-held Morocco said prisoners
already had been brought in as a result of the British attack
which the Allies have been preparing for a Aveek, and Berlin
broadcasts hinted that Rommel had transferred his headquarters
and perhaps some of Iris Libyan forces to Tunisia.
Previously the British and American forces which had
streamed across North Africa for hundreds of miles in a
race to get control of Tunisia's middle Mediterranean bases were reported
to have tested the defense in the northern tip of the French
protectorate, and Radio Morocco quoted an Allied spokesman as
saying their attacks Were growing in violence.

TWO-PRONGED
RED ASSAULT
CRUSHES NAZIS
R u s s i a n s Inflicting Heavy
Casualties on Foe on Two
Sides of Stalingrad.
SCORE 50-MILE ADVANCE
Germans Admit 'Grand-Scale'
Attack Threatens to Pin
Them Down in Russia.
(By International News Service)
MOSCOW — Smashing re-
lentlessly- against G e r m a n
lines in the vicinity of Stalingrad
in the greatest Soviet
drive since last year's winter
offensive, Red army troops
today drove steadily toward both
northwest and south of the Volga
metropolis, inflecting heavy casual-
ties on the Nazis.

TOTTERING: Buna Due To Fall
As Yanks Close In On 3 Sides
By International News- Service)
. UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIAN
Allied capture of Buna, one of the last remaining- Jap garrisons
in northeastern New Guinea, appeared imminent today
as American forces threatened dwindling Jap positions
from three sides.

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