The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-25
Italian Battle Fleet MaN Also Be Ordered Into :
 Fight By Hitler ALLIED, AXIS ARMIES
 CLASH IN TUNISlA Much German Equipment Deployed Along North
 African Coast
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff COrrcspondcnsA
 London, November 25. - (UP) - Adolf Hitler is rush- ing airplanes from the Rus sian front to Sardinia and Sicily in a desperate attempt to get supremacy of the air and sea in the Tunisian zone, it was said authoritatively today. It was admitted that the endorsements were heavy and that the Axis air forces were making big raids on Allied ports and shipping, The informant suggested that the, Italian battle fleet might take t@ sea to join in the attack, but said a strong Allied naval covering torce would be waiting for 1t.
 Armies Clash
 Dispatches from Africa reported that Allied and Axis armies had clashed in widely separated zones 04 Tunisia and that battles on land and in the air, increasing steadily iF ferocity and size, portended an early decisive test of strength.
 Allied headquarters reported thaA all was going well as the main forced moved steadily westward toward thd Germans massing along the Easa Tunisian coast.
 A communique had reported tha throwing back of German advanced units only 24 miles southwest oA Tunis by American troops supported by French attachments.
 Paratroops Active '
 The British First Army. advancs ing along the north coast. had forced back German advanced ele@ ments only little west of Bizerta and in the south parachute troops still active many days after they had been landed in enemy infested zones, had broken German armore@ columns and captured prisoners.
 Tn Lihya the British Eighth Army was driving hard, still pressing thd retreating German Afrika Korps, irl the 70-mile stretch between Aged dabia and Fl Agheila, trying t4 keep the Germans from organizing q line for a stand.
 German broadcasts asserted tha3 Axis endorsements including tAnka assault guns, motorized units, antia! tank units, infantry and engineera were being moved rapidly toward the Algerian frontier and deploye0 along the coast to defend the corls, munications between the Bizertes| Tunis zone and Libya.
 Germans Claim Ambush
 A German official news agenoN| dispatch broadcast by Berlin assertS' ed that along the Algerian frontie1 the Germans had ambushed 6 BritS' ish spearhead and destroyed tanks scout cars and transport vehicles, and had taken prisoners. It wa9 said that engineers blew up roads behind advanced Allied elements.
 The Germans continued report@ of the success of airplane attacks on Allied shipping. Berlin reported seven Allied supply ships damaged four so badly that they probably sunk; two British destroyers dame aged and British cruiser sunk. IS was asserted that several American planes were destroyed aground as Bone airdrome, Algeria, and that fires were started in the harb0N' areas of Bone and Algiers.
 Bombing Continues
 Planes of the Middle EASter& command, including those of heroie' Malta, continued a big scale bonib~i ing offensive all the way from Crets to Sardinia and Libya to the Tuns isian coast.
 But it was sajd authsKitstiys here that the German and xeatsz
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