Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1942
British Put Rommel To Flight In Egypt
Axis Forces
Flee After.
Tank Defeat
8th Army Advances,
Improves Positions;
Airmen Pound Enemy
CAIRO, Nov. 4—(UP)Front re-
ports late today said Marshal Erwin
Rommel is abandoning his Alamete
positions and retreating westward
along the coastal road under an all-
out Allied air attack.
Dispatches from the fighting scene
said Rommel started his withdrawal
several hours ago.
Republicans
Nearing
House Control
Undecided Contests
May Turn Balance
IN Nations! Assembly
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—(AP)—Republicans
carved deep gains today
into Democratic majorities in. both
chambers of Congress and on the
basis of yet incomplete returns from
Tuesday's election had a mathematical
chance to take control of the
House.
Democrats remained in the saddle
in the Senate, with 13 wins added
to 41 holdovers for a. working majority
of the 96 seats. But the Republicans,
in picking up at least
eight seats, vanquished such administration
stalwarts at Prentiss M.
Brown of Michigan and William H.
Smathers of New Jersey, and even
dipped down into the Oklahoma
cotton country to unseat Josh Lee,
all-out New Dealer.
G.O.P. WINS
KEY STATES
OF NATION
By the Associated Press
A Republican party already re-
juvinated by spectacular election
gains in United Slates Senate seats
and states governorships steadily
swelled its minority power in the
House of the new Congress today.
and at midday a Republican sweep
to majority control remained a
mathematical possibility.
Submarine Attack
Off Newfoundland
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Nov.
4.—(AP)—An announcement by naval
authorities that a submarine attack
had been made against shipping in
Newfoundland coastal waters was
made public today.
The announcement, which disclosed
neither the time, place nor
result of the attack, was made Monday,
but not released until now.
(The German high command asserted
yesterday that U-boats had
sunk 16 ships totaling 94,000 tons
off the Canadian east coast out of
a convoy "on the way from the
United States to England."
(There was no confirmation of
this from any source, however, and
similar German claims have proved
.exaggerated in the past..)
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