ATTACK RESUMED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5

ATTACK RESUMED

PONT DU FAHS AREA

(Rec. 9 a.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 22. While the Eighth Army has been covering the last few miles to Tripoli with little or no opposition, French headquarters in North Africa reports that strong enemy armoured forces are attacking the French troops in central Tunisia, in the area between twenty miles south-west of Tunis and forty miles south-west of Kairwan. The French communique states: "The enemy has resumed the attack southwest of Pont dv Fahs, especially in the direction south-west of Bou Arada and on the mountain plateau of El Kebir, with the support of strong forces and aircraft. The enemy attempts were vain. Last night a strong attack, supported by fifty tanks, made progress at Am el Dor. thirty miles west of Kairwan. It is now confirmed that in the battle which has been in progress for. the last three days, the-enemy, is employing considerable forces. Fur- ! ther south-west, we captured in a surprise attack a height in the area of I Fondouk and Laones. Our troops con- i tinued the,pursuit and captured part of the garrison of Serdeles, which recreated some days ago."