STILL IN BALANCE

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

STILL IN BALANCE

PONT DU FAHS BATTLE

LONDON, January 21. The battle v. near Pont dv Fahs, in northern Tunisia, is reported to be still in the balance. Allied artillery, tanks, and planes are making an all-out effort to confine the Germans to their original advance and turn the scales. LONDON, January 20. Allied air and artillery action over the Pont dv Fahs-Bou Tarada road, covering the French retreat, has limited the German movement to a single south-western drive, says the military spokesman in Algiers, commenting on the Axis penetration south-west of Pont dv Fahs. The Axis suffered sizeable losses in equipment and tanks, out of all proportion to the value of the The British United Press correspondent in Algiers says that in order to counter the German tank column's seven-mile thrust British forces are trying to gain control of hills, to the east of the road running south from Pont dv Fans to bring it under artil- [ lery fire. British-held positions already i dominated the road running westward from Pont dv Fahs. The German tank column is meeting with heavy artillery resistance. The French army is offer-

ing rewards for the capture of native saboteurs whom the Germans are dropping by parachute. The Associated Press correspondent in Algiers says that the Axis forces are doing their utmost to perfect their defences in the present lines, and are arming every promising summit with guns, which have already several times forced the Allies to give up objectives. It is officially confirmed that the German tank expert, General yon Arnim, has succeeded General yon Nehring in command in Tunisia.