Current Events March 10, 1943; ROMMELS RETREAT LEAVES PRISONERS AND MATERIALS IN HANDS OF ALIES / JAPAN CONDITIONALY VOWS TO INVADE SIBERIA / R. A. F. RETALIATES WITH HUGE BOMBS AT NURMBERG / BOMBS DUMPED ON NAPLES:

                          THE STARS AND STRIPES

                                     Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces

                                 London, England Wednesday, March 10, 1943

Prisoners, Material Captured

By British as Rommel Retires

To Positions in Mareth Line

Allies Shoot Down

21 Nazi Planes

In a Day

ALLIED HQ, North Africa, Mar. 9 (AP)—Rommel continued to retreat

into his positions in the Mareth Line in southern Tunisia today, leaving

prisoners and material in the Eighth Army's hands while the RAF and the

American air forces accounted for the destruction of 21 German planes

during the day.

The Axis suffered a series of defeats yesterday, both on the ground and in

the air as the British forces beat of! Two German attacks in the Sedjenane area,

taking 200 prisoners.

The Germans have suffered a considerable defeat in northern Tunisia, where

they attacked the British-American First Army in force near Tamera, where Allied

forces had withdrawn from Sedjenane, United Press reported. After several

hours of heavy fighting the enemy was driven back with severe losses, including

200 prisoners.

The RAF and American air forces in the western desert hammered Rommel's

best forces as they withdrew into the hills around Halluf.

                                       Greatest Action in Air

Report Japs to Fight Reds

If Axis Fleets Hit Allies

NEW YORK, Mar. 9 (UP)—Japan has conditionally promised to attack Siberia,

according to the secret German radio Gustav Siegfried Bins ". in a broadcast

picked up today.

The Jap Ambassador in Berlin, Gen. Oshima, was said to have promised this

on condition that the Germans, after establishing shortened defense lines on the

Russian front, attack the Allies with the support of the Italian and French fleets

in the Mediterranean and of surface raiders in the northern seas.

4- Ton Bombs Blast Nuremberg

As RAF Picks Up Aerial Assault

Lone German bomber sorties were all the Luftwaffe could muster against

England yesterday in retaliation for day and night raids by the RAF and

USAAF which marked the resumption—after a one-day interval—of

around-the-clock 'bombing by the Allies in Britain.

Libs Dumped 300 Tons

Of Bombs on Naples So Far

CAIRO, Mar. 9 (UP)—So far 300 tons of bombs have been dropped on Naples

by U.S. Liberator bombers which have backed the Eighth Army's offensive all

the way from El Alamein to Tunisia, Col. Hugo P. Bush, U.S. Ninth Air Force

bomber chief, revealed today.

Naples, which has had nine raids since Dec. 4, is the toughest .and best defended

target the Libs have yet tackled. .The target which received the greatest weight

of bombs from U.S. planes during the past seven months was Benghazi harbor,

which got about 850,000 pounds before it was occupied by the Allies..