TRANSPORT WRECKED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 5

TRANSPORT WRECKED

PILED UP IN HOPELESS

JAM

LONDON, January 21. Our forces occupied Horns and farhuna on Wednesday, and during the. day were in close contact with the enemy retreating to the west, states today's Cairo communique, . German forces are streaming westAvard from Tripoli along the coastal road leading to Zuara (70 miles west of Tripoli) and the Tunisian border. Huge fires are raging in Tripoli itself; with intermittent explosions. The capture of the city would give us a niujor port and base only 200 miles from the eastern Tunisian ports, and 300 miles from Sicily, covering the Axis supply lines, but the port has been battered by air attack's. Air forces smashed convoys on Tuesday evening, and by midnight the cop.stal road was jammed and littered with wrecks. . . The enemy had mounted anti-aircralt guns along the roadside, but their fire could not save the convoys. It was a c iath-trap retreat. Waves of planes attacked from all sides, and at the end ihcra were very few vehicles moving, or even capable of moving. ~ Vv one point a line of traffic a mile i .3 was bombed and shot up until : vehicles were piled up in. a hopeis jam. completely blocking the /.-tied airmen report huge fires in r ; ijcjii; with intermittent explosions ... uip dock area.