BRITISH PARATROOPS
GOOD WORK IN TUNISIA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 14, noon) LONDON, Dec. 13 A correspondent with the advanced British troops in Eastern Tunisia reports that British parachutists dropped a week before far in territory held by the enemy returned to their own lines two days ago. Dropped about 25 miles south-west of Tunis, they headed towards the capital, shooting up enemy transport coming from the south. The Germans sent out tanks, armoured cars and lorry-loads of infantry in an endeavour to round them up. The parachutists knocked out two tanks and three lorries in one skirmish on December 7. In the early hours of December 8 they raided airfields at Sena, six miles from Tunis. Five or six planes on the ground were destroyed and stores set on fire. Running short of explosives they decided to return to the British lines through mountains 80 miles away. They marched at night. Arabs gave them food and warned them where Germans were.
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Waikato Times, Volume 131, Issue 21910, 14 December 1942, Page 3
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