The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-06

 in the rear areas of Rommel's troops and further disorganlze the AXIS et- forts at orderly retirement.
 The fleeing enemy yesterday was SS miles from Alamein, where the great Allied offensive started l4 days ago. The rear guard actions were being fought in. the neighbor- hood of Sidi Haneish southwest Of Bagush, which is approximately i57 miles east of Halfaya tHellfire) Pass on the Libyan border.
 The speed of the British break through the Axis lines had carried them we'll beyond Fuka, 65 miles west of Alamein, where the Axis forces had been expected to make some sort of a stand, Daba, another main Axis point on the Mediterra- mean coast, 35 miles west of Alamein, had been completely abandoned by Rommels armies.
 Germans Lead Flight
 The Germans were leading the flight to Libyan, reversing their cus- tomary procedure of using their highly trained desert troops to guard the rear, to entrusting that duty to their Italian allies.
 The luckless Italians were being moved down like flies as they sought to retreat along the coast road be- tween Fuka and Matruh. Allied planes bombed and Straffed them and the Germans on ahead while raiding columns from British tank divisions which had gotten to the Axis rear menaced all Axis con- voys attempting to move westward.
 The Germans were losing as heav- fly as the Italians in dead and prisoners. Tn two years on the North African front, this corre- spondent never had seen so many dead Nazis. The Afrika Korps anti tank gunners apparently had been given orders to hold their anti-tan screen at all costs and remained in their gun pits until they were killed by our advancing infantry or by long range siege guns.
 (The British Broadcasting Cor poration, in a news program beamed at Germany, said last night that two more German generals had been killed in action. They were General Von summerman, commander of the German 90th Light Artillery Divis- ion, and General Won Prittwitz, commander of the 18th Panzer Corps)
 Worst Fighting Seen
 Even veterans of the siege Of To- hruk. which the British held for two years, said this was the grimmest fighting ever seen in North Africa. At one gun post, guarding a vital point of the coast road, advancing British infantry found the gum ners stretched on the hillside where three guns were emplaced. Farther ahead, groups of Adolf Hitler's prize troops were huddled together, dead. They had been hit by sheilfire or by missiles from an anti-tank cannon.
 Allied planes flew over the battle- field dropping leaflets in German and Italian. advising the enemy to lay down their arms and avoid senseless massacre.
 The Italian radio, more frank than the Nazls, in acknowledging the terrific beating the Axis was taking. began to speak of the grim determination with which the Axis had resolved that the British would never beach Tripoli.")
 Attempting to keep the remnants of the Axis tank force from being anihaliated. the German command CT who succeeded General Ritter Won Thoma, former commander of Axis tank forces in North Africa who is British prisoner, led them northwest on Q semi-circular line running from Sidi Abd Fl Rahmaii on the coast to Tel Fl Mansfra. There he apparently hoped to link forces with what remains of Italian Ariete "battering ram" division.
 Resistance On Coast Road
 The Axis appeared to be trying hardest to stem the Allied advance along the main coastal road, mean while trying to use an anti tank screen to protect their flank to the south.
 The Allies pursuing the battered Germans had broken through their defense screen of powerful 88-milli- meter guns at many points. At some places, enemy tanks showed will- ingness to fight despite their over- whelming losses.
 They appeared to be battling for time to permit their infantry in the north to retire along the coast road. though Allied planes were battering