THE DAILY TIMES
BURLINGTON. N. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1942
Axis Forces Are Being Separated
Between Tunis And Bizerte Today;
Hitler Urges Nazis To Hold Reds
Skies Are! Cleared
Of Nazi Planes
Over Tunisia
London, Dec. .1—(AP) —
A l l i e d columns, striking'.,
across Tunisia under . skies
being rapidly cleared of the:
enemy air force, steadily, are
lengthening two wedges;
aimed at separating Axis'
forces in Tunis and Bizerte:
and cutting them off from,
their last land route to Trip-
poli, it was announced at Allied
headquarters in North'
Africa.
One British and American force;
was reported today stabbing close
to the coast, only a few miles, short
of its goal of severing the last highway
communication left to the
enemy garrisons at Bizerte and
Tunis.
Another force of Americans and
Free Frenchmen was plunging to-
'ard the coast farther to the south
in a race tc seize the Tunis-Tripoli
road skirting the Mediterranean
shore In East Central Tunisia.
Strength Is Mounting
Loss Of Red City
Compared To
Berlin
BY EDDY GILMORE
Moscow, Dec. 1—(AP) —
Adolf Hitler's own appeal was
reported today to be spurring
the Nazis in a desperate but
unsuccessful fight to recapture
railway lines south of
Rzhev and southwest of Velikie
Luke on the central Russian
front west of Moscow.
So vital is Hzhev to the Germans'
vast network of communications,
said Bed Star, that Hitler telegraphed
his commander there emphasizing
the threat to the city
and warning that "the loss of
Rzhev is equal to the loss of half
of Berlin."
Every thrust In a new series of
counterattacks was beaten off, the
army newspaper said.
Locked In Battle
(The BBC, heard in New
New Guinea
War Reaches
Close Stage
Allied Headquarters In Australia,
Dec. 1. — (AP)— With only a matter
of yards separating the Japanese
and Allied lines In the Jungle
savage fighting flamed on the left
flank of the New Guinea battlefront
yesterday.
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas
MacArthur said today the fighting
was "close in" and particularly
heavy on the Gona end of the 20-
mile strip of beach which represents
the sole Japanese foothold
left in Papua.
Between Gona- on the west and
Buna on the east, Allied patrols
already have driven a wedge, at-
least temporarily, and succeeded In
reaching the beach,
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