THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 25, 1943:
American forces storming into the battle
of Tunisia on a new front have pushed the Germans
back six miles southwest of Bizerte, while to the south
British armies advanced up to seven m i l e s and seized key
anchors of the powerful Axis defenses.
Hundreds of Allied planes unleashed the -greatest
offensive of the North African campaign yesterday in
support of American, British and French troops tightening
the trap on the Axis in Tunisia.
Civilians in Moscow were ordered today
to bring their gas masks to control points for testing in
what apparently was a precautionary move against the possibility
of German gas attacks from the air.
The Sunday Times
PROVO, 'UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1943
Yanks Push Nazis
Back In Tunisia
U.S. FORCES
SHIFTED TO
NEW SECTOR
British Armies
Key Anchors In
New Advance
By VIRGII, PINKLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUAR.
TERS, NORTH AFRICA —
April 24 (U.P) — American forces storming into the battle
of Tunisia on a new front have pushed the Germans
back six miles southwest of Bizerte, while to the south
British armies advanced up to seven m i l e s and seized key
anchors of the powerful Axis defenses, the Allies disclosed today.
Tens of thousands of American troops and thousands of vehicles,
shifted secretly from south to north Tunis, ripped into the German.
lines, capturing1 three dominating hills and holding them
against violent counter-attacks. Tanks On Southern Wing.
A German broadcast said: American troops are forming the
extreme southern wing of the British first army and their objective
'is Pont Du Fans, railroad town and important road junction
about 30 miles south-southwest of Tunis. Any Americans in action
there presumably would be units left behind in. the northward move.
A French communique broadcast from Algiers said French
troops had advanced some 12 miles eastward along the northern
coast within the last few days.
An official announcement revealed that the Allies had captured
a German document signed! by Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim
as commander-in-chief, suggesting the possibility that Marshal
Erwin Rommel had left Tunisia and saying his "present whereabouts
and new appointment, if any, are unknown."
Allied Air Forces
Give Ground Troops
Wonderful Support
Fliers Stage More Than 1500 Sorties in
Single Day To Set Up a North African
Record; Meet No Opposition
By PHIL, AULT
United Press Staff Correspondent
NORTH, AFRICA, April, 24
(U.P)—Hundreds of Allied planes unleashed the -greatest
offensive of the North African campaign yesterday in
support of American, British and French troops tightening
the trap on the Axis in Tunisia.
At -almost every minute of the day formations of fightsrs
and bombers roared out from main airfields to hammer
enemy strongholds and roads, or sailed home only to pick up
more gasoline and ammunition.
Set New Record—
When the last bomb had dropped and the final machine-gun
\burst fired, the log books showed that more than 1,500 sorties or
single-plane flights had been made—a North African record.
| The bomb charts showed the greatest tonnage of explosives
ever dropped in Tunisia during daylight had been heaped on the
enemy.
The luftwaffe, faced with the same kind of tacits with which
it had scourged the Allies in France almost three years ago was
virtually driven from the skies.
Moscow Civillians
Ordered to Get
Gas Masks Ready
MOSCOW, April 24 (UP)—Civilians in Moscow were ordered today
to bring their gas masks to control points for testing in
what apparently was a precautionary move against the possibility
of German gas attacks from the air.
At the same time, new instructions were issued to air raid
wardens, including ways of dealing with a new type of incendiary
bomb capable of smashing through four floors before exploding.
'
The gas mask instructions, only three days after Prime Minister
Winston Churchill's: warning in London that reports indicated the
Germans were preparing to use gas against Russia, were sent
out by the headquarters of the capitals passive defense forces.
They were broadcast over the Moscow radio's local network.
The tests will determine whether the masks, which have yet to
be used after almost two years of war, are still effective.
War In Brief
KORIH AFRICA:
American armored forces drive Germans
back six mites in northern Tunisia
white British armies advance, seven mites in the south.
STOCKHOLM:
Sweden formally protests German attack on
Swedish submarine Draken as
diplomatic relations between two countries cool.
LONDON:
United States 'expected to break with Finland.
NORTH AFRICA:
Col. Gen.Jurgen Von Arnim believed to
have replaced Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as axis commander
in Tunisia.
LONDON:
Russians report that Germans give up efforts to enlarge
Kuban bridgehead in the Caucasus after heavy losses.
NEW DELHI:
American bombers attack Rangoon area -in Burma.
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