Times News
TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943
ROMMEL ABANDONING TRIPOLI
Fall of African
City Reported as
Matter of Hours
By ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Final collapse of Premier Benito Mussolini's African empire
appeared to be only a matter of hours today amid signs
that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was hastily abandoning
the burning city of Tripoli and British eighth army columns
stormed forward within 35 miles of the axis stronghold.
Tripoli is the last citadel of Italy's dark continent domain
which once embraced Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia,
Cirenaica and Tripolitania. A bulletin from Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery's eighth army headquarters said British troops yesterday
captured the towns of Tarhuna and Homs, respectively 40 to 56
miles from Tripoli, and continued their pursuit of Rommel's fleeing
armies.
RUSSIANS PUSH
RING OF STEEL
AROUND RUSTOV
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (AP)—Russian shock troops were reporting pouring
westward across the Manych river today 15 miles from the rail
junction of Salsk in the drive to isolate the axis army of the Caucasus
and clamp an arc of steel about Rostov.
Feverish German efforts to fix a stable line along the left bank of
the Manych, a placid, lake-fed stream which flows into the Don
30 miles east of Rostov, are failing, field dispatches said.
Red Star announced that Soviet detachments were capturing point
after point while the Germans were blowing up bridges and trying to
lay more mines in a rapid retreat. They already have been driven
from a number of positions on the Salsk side of the Manych, it said.
Move Westward
LATE BULLETIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 21 (AP)—A
barrage balloon, torn from Its moorings,
exploded In a war housing project
at a San Francisco bay area point today,
demolishing several of the residences,
and injuring several persons. One man
was reported killed.
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