GETTING NEARER SFAX

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22009, 10 April 1943, Page 5

GETTING NEARER SFAX

EIGHTH ARMY SPEARHEAD v Unileu Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, April 9 Despatches state that the Eighth Army spearhead is 45 miles from Stax and only 20 miles separates it from the American forces advancing from Maknassi toward the coast. The First Army pierced the Axis lines in the Madjez el Bab area, after which it continued to advance and mopped up several pockets of resistance which were hampering progress. The Americans pushing out from Maknassi are reported to be attacking the German lines around Mezzouna about 15 miles east of Maknassi, on the road to Mahares. The Americans in this area are only 20 miles from the Eighth Army advancing up the coast. A link-up would endanger all the Axis forces remaining in the vast area to the south and south-east. The Vichy radio says the new American attack in the direction of Quairwan is increasing in violence. Converging assaults were launched from Ousseltia Valley, Pichon and \ Fondouk. The radio added that General Anderson had again taken the initiative and resumed the offensive south of Cap Serrat, with the Germans stubbornly resisting.