Evening star., 1943-05-10
Allied Airmen Sink Many Ships
Trying to Evacuate Axis Forces;
Enemy Surrenders Below Bizerte
Naval Blockade
Is CIomped
On Cap Bon
By EDWARD KENNEDY.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, May 10-Allied
naval and air forces threw a
blockade around Cap Bon Pen
insula today and sank many
small ships carrying Axis SOL
dierS desperately attempting to
escape from Tunisia.
(About 80 small ships man.
aged to escape from the Tunis
area, Associated Press Core
spondent Daniel de Luce, on
the Cap Bon front, reportedD
The American I'd Corps obtained
unconditional surrender of all enemy
units in its territory southeast of
Bizerte.
German resistance stiffened in
front Of British armor smashing
against the entrance to Cap Bon
Peninsula.
The position of Axis troops still
fighting in Tunisia was described
officially as worse than desperate"
and it is certain that no important
number of German and Italian SOL
diers will escape from Africa.
Details Disclosed.
Details Of the German surrender
to the Americans in the north were
disclosed at headquarters as follows:
At II am. yesterday Maj. Gen
Krause, commanding artillery of the
Afrika Korps, sent an emissary to
Maj. Gen. Omar N. Bradley and
requested an armlStice SO the sur
render might be negotiated.
: Gen. Bradley's terms were as fol-
lows:
l. Unconditional surrender.
?. Prompt acceptance.
The American officer further de-
manded that all destruction of Ger
man equipment cease Immediately.
Gen. Krause accepted.
The wholesale surrender of the
enemy battalions then began and by
early afternoon all the northern
region where the enemy had been
cut off by the wedge the British
lSt Army drove through to Tunis
was cleaned up.
Prisoners Total $4,000.
The bulk Of the German armor
was there and the total of prisoners
was over $4,000, in addition to an
other $4,000 taken by the British.
Five other generals were among
those who surrendered with Gen.
Krause
They were Maj, Gen. Boroweitz,
commander of the 18th Armored
Division; Maj. Gen. Neuffer, COM
mander of the Air Force Artillery
Division; 1t. Gen. Buelouvius, COM
mander of the Mannteuffel Division;
Maj. Gen. Won Vaerst, commander
Of the 5th Armored Army, and Mai,
Gen. BaumSenge. commander of the
Bizerte air forces
The surrendering Germans were
concentrated in an area around the
mouth of the Medjerda River, which
flows into the Gulf of Tunis 25 miles
southeast of Bizerte.
The British 7th Armored Division,
which had come up from the south
to aid the Americans, caught Gen
Boroweitz, whose 18th Armored Di-
vision they had been fighting for
two years.
Some Fierce Fighting.
Meanwhile, British armor striking
south and southeastward from the
Hammam Lif area on the Gulf of
Tunis southeast of the capital found
the Germans stiffening there, tenn
porarily at least and there was some
fierce fighting which was confused
today.
Armored columns pushed ahead,
however, and forward patrols
reached a point Il miles south of
Creteville-Which placed them near
the center of the peninsula's base
and deployed in other areas.
Some enemy troopse on the penin-
sula were attempting to get away,
sometimes in what amounted to
panic, and Allied air forces were at
tacking them both on land and sea.
They sank many small boats laden
with soldiers, who clung desperately
to RATS after the vessels submerged
and tried to ward off attacks by
waving white flags
A 1st Army spokesman on the
Cap Bon front estimated Saturday
that 10000 Axis troops, deserted by
their highest commanders, had been
swept into the penlnsula's Bataan-
like trap.
Allied aerial squadrons, leaving
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