The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-07

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man rail bottleneck at Karls-
ruhe, through which the Nazis
must move rail-borne supplies to
industries of their weaker, In
vasion- threatened Italian part
ners.
Today's communique from AL
lied headquarters in Africa gave
no clue as to the course the fight
ing was taking, saying merely
that it was continuing"
Supporting Allied planes bat
tered the enemy throughout yes
terday.
LONDON, Dec. ALLIED
commanders were reported to-
day to have Laid plans for the
final phase of the Tunisian cam
paign" at a candlelight confer
ence in a farm house kitchen
late yesterday while heavy fight
ing ragged on in the Tebourba-
Mateur sectors.
A Reuters dispatch from the
battle front told of the confer
ence.
Heights dominating Tebourba,
strategic communications CEN
ter 20 miles west of Tunis, are
securely held by Allied troops,
the Morocco radio said in a
broadcast recorded in London.
Allied fighters, still handi-
capped by the lack of wholly
prepared advance air fields,
were declared nevertheless to
be attacking German and Ital-
ian positions continuously while
bombers pounded Tunis, BIZ
zerte and Tripoli.
British and American bomb
ers and fighters dashed at Axis
communications between Italy
and North Africa in week-end
raids.
Reggie airdrome, in the ex-
IRENE south of Italy, was hit
Saturday night. Docks at Bier
tie were blasted and a railway
line between Sousse and Sfax,
along the coast of the French
protectorate was shot up, Cal
70 communique said.
Staff officers of Lieut.. Gen.
K. A. N. Anderson's British
First Army and American sup
porting units were reported by
Reuters Correspondent Alan
Humphreys to have mapped the
operations for the final cleanup
of Tunisia.
The general who commanded
the division that has done the
bulk of the fighting for the First
Army left the meeting Gin high
spirits and full of confidence"
Humphreys said.
Allied lines were reported
here to be holding firm despite
dive-bombing attacks as reserve
and supplies were moved up,
mile by mile for the final Of
fensive.
A Vichy rodio broadcast re-
corded in London, however, as
serted that British forces were
retreating west of Tebourba,
and the Italian high command
declared that "mopping up OPP
erations" had been completed at
that town after four days OF
fighting which cost the Allies
heavily in men and materiel.
HEAVY LOSSES
Aerial blows were emphasiz-
ed in reports from Allied quar-
tiers and the Morocco radio said
that "in the course of four weeks
of fighting. the Axis has lost in
Tunisia 139 aircraft and the AL
lies IA"
Twin-engined fighters were
officially declared to have shot
down two more northbound Axis
transport planes off the east
coast of Tunisia yesterday and
damaged other planes. A mer-
chant vessel and a schooner
we're strafed with machineguns
and cannon in the aerial efforts
to pinch off Axis supply lines.
At the Celia airdrome on Sici-
~. way station of reinforce
ment for Hitler's Tunisian de-
tachments, hits were scored on
field facilities, the Cairo COM
munique said.
A German high command
broadcast by the Berlin radio
said that Allied tank and motor
concentrations were targets Oh
air attacks.
Bomber formations bombed
the (Algerian) port of Bone and
Philippeville at night" the Ger
man command said.
Nazi fighters were declared
TO have shot down six planes In
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