The Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tenn., Sunday, March 21, 1943
Rains Slow Down Allies In Tunisia
Cumberland Times
CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1943
Red Troops Kill 1,600 Nazis
In Fierce Hand-To-Hand Fight;
Yanks Pound Rommel's Flank
SOVIET FORCES
GAIN IN DRIVE
ON VITAL BASE
Wipe Out Nazis In Lake
Ilmen Area, Score Fresh
Advances In Push To
Take Smolensk
RUSSIANS HOLDING
IN KHARKOV FIGHT
Moscow Claims Hitler's
A t t a c k In South Has
Been Checked, With
Heavy Losses
By JAMES M. LONG
London, March 20 (AP) — Russian
troops wiped out 1,600 Germans in hand-to-hand fighting south of
Lake Ilmen and scored fresh gains in the push on Smolensk, while in
the south the Nazis lost 800 men and 15 tanks in the ceaseless effort
to crack the Red Army's Donets river line below Kharkov, Moscow
announced tonight.
German tanks loaded with Tommy gunners attempted to break Into
one populated place In the Ohuguev sector, 23 miles southeast or
Kharkov, but "struck our minefield and were blown up," «xid the midnight
bulletin recorded by th« Soviet Monitor.
Southern Lines Holding
YANKS GET SET
FOR 'BIG PUSH'
AGAINST AXIS
General Patton Massing
Armored U n i t s To Hit
Rommel's Forces In
East Sector
PLANES GROUNDED
Rains and Dust Storms In
Tunisia Bring Lull, But
New Drive Impends;
Giraud Pleased
Africa, March 20 (AP)— A calm Allied Headquarters to North
brought on by heavy rains in the north and center and dust storms
in the south settled over the Tunisian front today while Lieut-Gen.
Patton's American divisions consolidated their holds on Gafsa and
El Guetar, 60 miles from the German life line skirting the east coast.
But the end of the rainy season was at hand in North Africa, and
the opposing armies utilized the lull as best they could to wheel up
supplies and shells for what may be the decisive battle of the whole
campaign.
May Trap Rommel
NAVY REVEALS
CITY OF FLINT
VICTIM OF SUB
Famous U. S. -Ship Sent
To Bottom By Reich
U-Boat In Atlantic
During January
17 CREWMEN LOST
First Seized By Germans
In 1939, Soon After War
Began; Later Turned
Loose By Norway
Washington, March 20 UP) — The City of Flint, an American steamship
which was the center of a sharp pre-war controversy in 1939
when it was announced by the Germans, has been torpedoed Mid funk to
the Atlantic.
The Navy-told today, In one of' its usual announcements, of the sinking
of "a small United States merchant ship" in the mid-Atlantic to
late January, and later deviated from its policy to permit disclosure
of its name — in this case the famous City of Flint.
17 Crewmen Lost
Seventeen of the crew of 65 was lost. A survivor, Third Mate William
Mills, 30, of Milton, Mass., told at Philadelphia that the ship was
torpedoed early one evening without warning and was abandoned
within 10 minutes .after fire broke out. The survivors spent three
days in life boats before they were picked up.
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