The Charleston Gazette
Charleston West Virginia, Friday Morning, December 18. 1942.
Rommel Rearguard Puts Up
Grim Fight to Smash Trap;
Tunisia Foe Bombed Heavily
8th Army Column
Cuts Foe in Half
Strong Armored Forces
Between Axis Bodies,
Airmen Report
Give Them But Slim
Chance For Survival
Main Imperial Units Reach
Marble Arch. 15 Miles
From Battle Zone
CAIRO. Dec. 17.—(INS)—Encircled
rearguard units of the
retreating Axis Africa Corps
fought tonight to break a steel
wedge separating them from the
rest of their army in Tripolitania,
even as the main body
of the British 8th army raced
into Marble Arch, only 15 miles
east of the battle^area.
The Daily Chronicle
Centraiia, Washington, Friday, December 18, 1942
ROMMEL'S ARMY CUT IN TWO
Fleeing Nazis
Cut Off West
Of El Agheila
Trapped Enemy Armored Fortifications
Continue To Be severely
Mauled After Suffer-
ing Heavy Casualties
By Associated Press
The British Eighth army has
cut Marshal Rommel's retreating
African corps columns in-
two along the road to Tripoli,
trapping armored formation
which "already have suffered
heavy casualties and continue
lo be severely mauled," the
British announced Thursday.
Coffee Royal
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 17.,
—(AP)—Judge J. Elmer Peak of
Superior Court sipped a cup of
coffee he brewed himself, and
called In newspapermen.
"Taste it," he said. "It's Just
about as good as coffee served
on most tables, at least,'it .beats
the recipe that President, Roosevelt
and Mayor La Guardia, who
recommended using c o f f e e
grounds a second time."
The recipe, one part coffee,
one part roasted rye grain.
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