LULL CONTINUES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15239, 4 January 1943, Page 3

LULL CONTINUES

CONFLICTING NEWS FROM TUNISIA. Received 12.10 p.m.) United Dress Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Cony right LONDON, Jan. 3. According to today’s reports from lup is La. the lull in ground fighting continues, the weather holding up operations on* both sides although Allied patrols • are constantly probixLg the Axis Sines in the Medjez el Bab and southern sectors. The Paris radio put out u. claim thait the Axis forces in Tunisia advanced 25 miles yesterday. Italian and German communiques simply - tato that tin Axis gained further ground. Reuter's Algiers correspondent quotes a Guardian correspondent for advice tliat the United States airforce todav destroyed 23 enemy planes and damaged 34 for the loss of two American machines. T lying Fortresses plastered military camps and the dry dock at Lagoulctte. R.A.F fighters during swei©|>s acrid inteiceptions over Bode destroyed eight Axle planes for the loss of five- fighters. Morocco radio reported that the first French convoy since the fall of France, consisting of warships and merchantmen from Dakar, arrived rt Morocco.