EAST OF MAKNASSY
JUNCTION OF ALLIED FORCES SOON Reed. 6 p.m. London, April 9. The German news agency said there had been tough lighting at Ousseltia and Bou Arada, and also Medjez el Bab, and on the coast area in the neighbourhood of Cap Serrat. The news agency, when admitting the abandonment of Pichon, said that the Axis had firmly maintained its mountain positions northward and southward of Pichon, where the Allies were attacking in order to supnort the British thrust in the vicinity of Medjez el Bab and Beja, aiming at tying down the Axis forces. Algiers radio states that FrancoAmerican forces operating east of Maknassy are on the point of joining up with the Allied forces coming from the south. The Associated Press Algiers correspondent reports that the United States Second Corps, when mopping up east of El Guettar, took prisoner j 1300 Axis troops. I
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 85, 12 April 1943, Page 5
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