The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-09
Raids
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Genoa, Naples ana other Italian
cities have already started a
hasty exodus to the countryside
under orders by Premier Mus
solini.
Other developments on the
worlds major war fronts:
Russia - Adolf Hitler was
reported speeding reserves to
the Soviet front from as far as
Germany itself in an attempt to
halt the Red army's three-week-
old winter offensive.
Soviet military dispatches said
Nazi transport planes, trains
and trucks were pouring rein
forcements into the more i'm
portant battle sectors. AS a re-
suit, it was said, German
counter attacks in the last five
days have slowed down the
Russian drives, but only at a
terrible cost in killed and
wounded.
Tunisia - Advices reaching
London said the hour for a new
Allied drive on the Axis-held
strongholds of Bizerte and Tu-
mis- might be near, following a
strong and successful counter
attack executed Monday by
British and American troops in
the Tebourba sector, 20 miles
west of Tunis.
American tanks were Of
ficially credited with supplying
the punch which drive the
Germans from their newiy-won
positions south of Tebourba, and
an Allied headquarters spokes-
man also praised the "extraor-
dinarily fine support from the
air by Raj and American air
forces"
AXIS SLOWS DOWN
The spokesman said the whole
Axis campaign to reinforce its
garrisons in Tunisia appeared
to have slowed up as result OF
air attacks and activities of the
Royal Navy"
Libya British headquar-
tiers reported that Allied fighters
shot down seven German Mes
serschmitts yesterday in an air
battle over Nazi Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel's Marble Arch
landing ground near Ell Agheila,
where Rommel has taken a new
stand against the British 9th
Army.
Other Allied planes shot down
a Junkers SO off the Libyan
coast and attacked the docks and
a seaplane base at Bizerte, scor-
ing hits on an Axis destroyer, a
fuel dump and a large building.
The British command report
ed new patrol activity lin for
ward areas" of the Libyan des-
ert as Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery tested out Nazi de-
lenses in the narrow Ell Agheila
corridor between salt marshes
and the sea-
New Guinea - Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters re-
ported that Allied bombers
broke up a fifth Japanese sea-
borne attempt to reinforce their
beleaguered ground troops in
the Buna-Gona sector.
Blasted with 500-p GU n d
bombs, one of the japanese
of six destroyers was
left "enveloped in flames and
the other five were driven
northward in flight.
SMASH FORWARD
On the New Guinea beaches,
American and Australian troops
advanced slightly in fighting
around Buna Airdrome and beat
off strong Japanese counter-at-
tacks from Buna Village and
Buna Mission, where at least 40
japanese were killed.
An enemy light cruiser and
four destroyers were sunk in
the four previous attempts to
land troops and supplies on the
Papuan shore.
On the Soviet front, dispatch
es to Red Star said the Germans
were pressing even mail planes
and training ships into service
to bolster their imperiled siege
armies before Stalingrad, indi-
eating shortage of transport
aircraft.
In addition, Red Star said
Russian filters had shot down as
many as 60 Junkers 52's -
regular Nazi troop and supply
carrying planes - in three
days.
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