ESCAPE BY BOAT
Several Attempts Stopped By Allied Airmen HOT PURSUIT AND ATTACK Rec. 2.30 p.m. LONDON, May 9. Allied airmen have already stopped several attempts by Axis troops to escape by boat from Tunisia. Groups of both Italians and Germans have fallen to air attacks before they got far enough for waiting Allied naval units to make contact with them. In one instance a party of about 30 men, while scrambling into small boats on the east side of Cape Bon, were killed or Allied 'airmen patrolling along the coast also broke up an enemy party which was getting into small boats at Porto Farina, east of Eizerta. Allied airmen are pursuing and attacking Axis troops wherever they have not surrendered. Latest Press messages from North Africa state that Allied aircraft are maintaining pressure on the enemy to-day, especially along the highways to Cape Bon Peninsula. The Gulf of Tunis has been closely patrolled and a small ship heading for Sicily was hit and probably sunk.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 3
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