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BRITISH MOVE AGAIN INITIATIVE RETAINED GERMAN WITHDRAWAL fEecd, 10.50 p.m.' NEW YOKK March '-'5 The Eighth Army rebuffed a furious Axis counter-attack and drove forward its Mareth Line position as the heaviest fighting flared up on the southern • front from Maknassy to Mareth, says the correspondent of the New York Times, Mr. Drew Middleton. Following their penetration of General Montgomery's vanguard in the Mareth position, German tanks and infantry withdrew, leaving hundreds of casualties and several hundred prisoners. Thus the British were edging forward again as the battle entered the fourth day, with General Montgomery retaining the initiative. The New York Times points out that the foregoing apparently is based on later information 'than Mr. Churchill's House of Commons statement. It is now established that Italian morale has reached a new low level. There have been instances of the Germans machine-gunning Italians, who are seizing opportunities to escape with almost frank alacrity.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24542, 26 March 1943, Page 3
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