Evening star., 1943-05-09

few hours before that they had no
time to streW the area with mines.
Three privates in a jeep who were
in the first column of vehicles to
enter the town said the sight of
blasting done largely by six months
of pounding from hundreds of
American and British bombers to
render the harbor unusable to the
Axis was unforgettable.
TT is awfully beaten up" said
Pvt. Eric A. Anselet of Sulphur, La.
I'VE got all the Nazis besides the
stragglers cleaned up except these
three guns you see firing from across
the lake neck there. They are just
a nuisance and nothing but crazy
fools to stick there because they will
be dead or captured soon.'
Pvt. Anselet was particularly
peeved because one of their shells
landed only 20 feet from the jeep
in which he was riding with Pvt.
Caste Farley of Detroit and Pvt.
Lilliens j. Ellis of Union City, Tenn.
After their last trip across the
neck of Lake Bizerte from the evac-
uated city the Nazis sank a ferry
in the canal in an attempt to block
it so the Allies could not use it.
They smashed every crane, every
piece of dock equipment possible
and prepared the power plant for
demolition but had 20 run from
the American and French jugger-
naut advance before they could
destroy the public utilities.
Ferryville Mad With Joy.
At Ferryville, 10 miles southeast
of Bizerte, where the Germans had
planned to make a determined last
ditch stand but were forced out
because of the rapid f1anking Amer
lean armor and infantry, the French
residents went mad with joy. AS in
Bizerte, the French tricolor was
quickly broken out and troops rolled
through the streets in pelting
shower of f1owers-and an even more
welcome rain of kisses from enthus-
iastic girls.
The city hall of the pretty little
NllldRC, WIlClC VI III o6,SSS
from bombed Bizerte had found a
haven, was crowded with 225 Ger
man and italian prisoners, looking
weary and beaten in their grimy
uniforms but not at all unhappy at
being prisoners since they are safely
out of the war.
When the American Army took
Bizerte and Ferryville, a contingent
of the American Press took Tindja.
This little spot at the western side
of Lake Achkel bears the same re-
lation to Ferryviile across the cause
way between Lake Achkel and Lake
Bizerte that Brooklyn does to Man
hattan--Manhattan gets all the pa
rades and so does Ferryville.
Tindja Wanted To Cheer.
So while in the distance the more
populous and more wealthy Ferry
vile rang with the cheers of its
residents applauding the American
armored column sweeping toward
Bizerte, the patriots Of little Tindja
stood around in detected groups
their flags hanging Imply.
The American troops. without
bothering to pause at Tindja. had
come on to kick the Nazis from rival
Ferryville.
The patriots of Tindja were CRATE
full. of course, and wanted to cheer
their deliverers, but it's awfully hard
to cheer an absent champion.
Just as the Tindja patriots were
sadly thinking of putting their flags
back in the moth balls, down the
road wove an, Army public relations
jeep carrying four uniformed Amer
lean war correspondents.
Can you tell us the road to
Bizerte, please" asked Graham
Hovey of International News Service
who was driving because no other
correspondent in the car could.
A small boy who heard the query
was the first to catch the signifi.
canoe to Tindja Of this epochal visit