Current Events December 16, 1942: AXIS WITHDRAW IB NORTHERB TUNISIA / ARIEL OFFENSIVE STEPPED UP IN SOLOMONS / NAZIS SLICE SOVIET LINES:

MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL

MANSFIELD, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1942

NAZIS WITHDRAW IN TUNISIA

Drive to Wipe Out Jap Reinforcements

Allied Patrols

Find Northern

Posts Vacant

British Eighth Army Continues Driving

Rommel Force Westward to Tripoli

As Allies Smash Tunisian Coast

With Mounting Air Attacks.

BULLETIN

LONDON—UP)—The Allied pincers in North Africa

clamped tighter on Axis troops today as the British

Eighth army pushed more than 50 miles west of El

Agheila.

'BY United Press

LONDON—German force? apparently have withdrawn

from some of their advanced positions in

northern Tunisia, the Morocco radio reported today;

ns the British Eighth Army drove westward through

Libya toward Tripoli and a junction with the Tunisian

Allied army.

British planes based on Malta joined in a big scale

attack on shipping along the east coast of Tunisia

where the Axis was desperately pouring in reinforcements

for it.s last ditch stand on the African continent.

ALLIEDPLANES

LASH OUT AT

LANDING PARTY

New Guinea Ground Forces on

Move To Mop Up Enemy

Around Buna.

M'ARTHUR PLANS MOVES

General Supervises Action at

Front To Clean Japs

Out of Papua.

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON—(INS)— Stepping

up their aerial offensive

against the Japs in the south

Pacific, U. S. planes attacked

enemy bases at Buin in the

northern Solomons and for the

sixth day rained bombs on the

new Nipponese airfield on New

Georgia island, the navy announced

today. Significantly, the

navy stated that no enemy resistance

was encountered in

either raid on the Jap bases.

NAZIS SLICE

SOVIET LINES

Drive Armored W e d g e I n t o

Red Positions Southwest

of Stalingrad.

.MOSCOW - (if (—German units

slashing hard at the left wing of

the Red army southwest of Stal-

grad.