The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-28
Key Town of TabuOrda, Is Miles From Tunis, Is
 Captured
  DRIVE AIMED AT
 AXIS STRENGTH Gen. DOOlittle's Planes Keep Up Incessant Al. tack on Nazi Lines
BY c. R. CUNNINGHAM Limited Press Staff Correspondentl

DA Ss ANs United Press Staff COrrespondentr
 Allied Headquarters, North Africa, November 28.-UP), - The British First Army, throwing back Axis defend- CTS at a rate of 20 miles in 24 hours, is driving straight for Tunis, intending to take it by storm and isolate Bizerte for later attack, it was made known today
 Under Lieutenant General Ken- meth A. N. Anderson, the First Army. supported by American mobile unitss smashed Its way 20 miles up the main railroad toward Tunis yester- day and took the key town of 'Ta- bourda, I5 miles from the capital.
 They were now headed toward their next objective, Djedeida, junc- ton of the Tlmis- Bizerte railroads 10 miles from Tunis.
 A vichy Havas Agency dispatchs reporting the Allies 10 miles west of Tunis, indicated that Djedeitla had been taken0
 The Allied forces were now pusn- ing steadily against the sole bis remaining center of Axis resistance, the Tunis- -Bizerte northeast corner of Tunisia.
 Aimed At Tunis
 Their drive was aimed straight at the heart of Axis strength-TuniS When Ttlnis falls, Bizerte, the great Naval Base, to the north, will bs virtually isolated, and will be exc pected quickly to follow suit.
 Allied air strength, which seems to be the key to the Tunisian cafn- paign, was swiftly increasing. Its growing power was indicated by continuous attacks, despite cloppy weather.
 All types of American planes oper~ ating in the North African theater hammered an air field in Central Tunisia on Thursday, destroying 40 enemy planes. Then British armed column moved in and took the field over.
 Allied general headquarters in London announced that II enemy planes had been shot down in for- ward areas of Tunisia on Thursday The Allies lost two fighters and the pilots of both were saved.
 Hit Communications
 Brig. Gen. James Doolittles Am- ericau 18th Air Force hammer Axis communications lines without sur- cease. One of their attacks was on the railroad station at Matui, where enemy troop and supply trains were waiting.
 In Southern Tlnisia, patrol ac~ tivity continued in the air and on the ground, with American P-33's attacking Axis arnored patrols.
 It was learned that one unit of the famous French Foreign Legion. which gave the Americans so much trouble south of Gran, has sworn allegiance to the American Army. It soon will be fighting with the Americans. with equipment it had previously lacked.
 (Radio Morocco said last night. quoting Allied sources. that prepara~ tions for big-scale offensive against Tlnis and Bizerte, were in their final stage.
 All Formal of TrAnaDort
 Ut said that all means of trans. port had been put into service. while French, American and British troops made their way slowly into Northeastern Tunisia.
 (There has been some hard fight- ing with Axis vanguards, radio Morocco said, and many German and Italian attacks have been re- plused.
 CRadio vichy broadcast a Berlin dispatch that German and Italian forces had ciashed with 40 British tanks on the Algerian-T -Tunisian frontier.
 tRadio Vichy said the British 'osA II tanks, abandoned seven ana sns remainder retreated).