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.