Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
'Dunkirk' Is out
For Africa Nuzis

ported that the village was only a
big cloud Of dust anG smoke when
they left.
Raj and American squadrons at
tackled small groups trying to escape
in boats near Porot Far!na on the
North TuniSian coast. wreckine all
vessels. and also broke up an escape
attempt near Cape Sebid. east OF
Bizerte. A schooner carrying troops
was sunk northwest of Bizerte and
n barge loaded with soldiers was
sent to the bottom An enemy ship
was blown up by a torpedo attack
e Rasidda Anchorage on Cap Bon.
BASE POUNDED
The big Italian naval base OF PAN
telleria was pounded for the second
straight day by more than 100 Allied
bombers. Photographs showed that
the biggest, all American raid OF
the war by 400 L. S. bombers and
fighters had caused tremendous
damage to war factories, arsenals
and depots at the Sicilian port OF
Palermo on Sunday. At least l3
enemy fighters were shot down.
The Allied air force also bombed
and strafed the German and Ital-
ian troopS-perhaps $4,000 men-on
Cap Bon and in South Tunisia as
the British First ARMY Spearhead
battled furiously with tanks and ar
tillery to break through crumbling
enemy resistance not far from the
town of HammIm Lif, in an area
about Is miles southeast OF TuniS
o. the base of Cap Bon Peninsula.
A dispatch from Ned Russell.
United Press correspondent with the
First army said that heavy tank
battle was in progress there Sun
day night and that the Germans
appeared to be falling back
Front dispatches showed there
was no place for the enemy TO fall
back except for a last stand in the
hills as the British fleet and the
Allied air forces had the peninsula
cut off on all sides.
A message from an advanced air
force base said that the Germans
and Italians were finding it i'm
possible to escape by sea except in
rare instances and were beginning
10 surrender
The German surrender to the
American 2nd Corps in North
Tunisia was one Of the most CALLING
of the war for the enemy. Sur
rounded, cut up and with soldiers
surrendering in many small groups,
the German divisional commander, +.
Mai. Gen. Krause, asked for an
armistice at II a. m. Sunday Maj. /
Gen. Omar N. Bradley. new COM
mander of the 2nd Corps, replied /
with a demand for unconditional
and acceptance Of his /
terms. which included an immediate |
end to all destruction of Axis equip /
ment.
G GENERALS TAKEN
Krause accepted and all resist
ance ceased at l pm. Six enemy T
generals have been captured so far.
The Hermann Goering division I
was holding the main barrier TO
Cap Bon in the Hammam Lii po-
sition and was also fiercely resist
ing attacks by British tanks two
miles east of Creteville which is IN
the same zone but inland. The F
British tanks we're fighting to break
through to the plain around Coull-
man at the foot of the high noun
tains which lie across the base OF
he peninsula.
Il they can break through, they
will cut off the enemy forces to the
southwest (in the Zaghouan area
" pushing through to Hammamet,
IN the south coast OF Cap Bon.
The French, aided by few Brit
sh armored cars, entered Zaghou-
an Sunday morning and pushed
eastward. mopping up the last enc
ny pockets in that sector. On the
sector to the south. the
British Eighth Army patrols again
we're pressing forward but there
was no important progress.
There seemed to be no choice for
he Axis forces but TO fight on in
The mountains of Cap Bon penin-
sula. where it was estimated that
the enemy had the remnants of the
10th, 18th and 21st panZer divisions f
as we'll as the goth and l64th light
infantry divisions and some Italian
troops. Some Of the 10th and 18th
divisions armor, however, had been
trapped in the north by the Amer
leans.
AN Italian communique broad
cast by the Rome radio said that
Axis troops trapped between the
and British armies south
east of Bizerte had ceased fight
ing)
BROKEN
CDNB, official German news
agency, said in a Berlin broadcast
that resistance between Tunis and
Bizerte had been broken by the
heavy Anglo-American attacks
The fleeing enemy left behind
large quantities Of war material,
the communique said.
"a Stockholm report said Gen.
Jurgen Won Amin, who was left in
command in Tunisia when Marshal
Erwin Rommel pulled out, had been
evacuated. but his whereabouts was
a secret
"A German broadcast reported
that Vice-Admiral Jean P. Esteva,
French resident general of Tunisia
at the time of the Allied landings
asst November, had reached VichyD
British armored units Saturday
captured the village of Carthage,
which stands on the ruins Of the
,reat city of ancient history that
vas destroyed by the Romans in
46 BIC.