THE GERMANS FOOLED
THE CONVOY TO ALGIERS
(Rec. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 28. A coirespondent of the "Christian Science Monitor" in Africa says it can now be disclosed that the Allies devised a simple, trick to make the Nazis believe their ,convoy was going to Malta instead of to Algiers. They arranged a movement of the convoy bound for Algiers so that it steamed eastward past Algiers in full daylight on November 18 under the eyes , of German reconnaissance planes. The ruse worked, and the Nazis rushed fighter and bomber, squadrons to Sicily, when they intended to obliterate the latest assumed reinforcement for Malta, but after nightfall the Allied toriyoy doubled back and steamed to Algiers. The trick cost t'j; Nazis a valuable fortnight before tney could establish adequate air forces and ground equipment at Bizerta and Tunis.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 131, 30 November 1942, Page 3
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