Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1941 — Page 7
DASH 10 EGYPT
Resapture Town Across “ Border From Libya, Italians Claim.
ROME, Nov. 27 (U.P.)—The High Command said today that Italo-|. German armored forces have cap-| tured Sidi Omar just across thej:
Libyan border in Egypt.
The communique reiterated that A Italian forces still hold Bardia on} §& the Libyan coast which the British|
claimed to have captured, and said
British prisoners are streaming into ;
that garrison town.
The High Command sald a mew| type of Italian chaser plane had}
participated in ‘the air battles and a group of this type shot down 13 British planes, including seven American-built - Tomahawks. - - The 4” new chasers were ‘called “mystery 7 planes.” &£ In the Gondar sector of northwestern Ethiopia, it said, British
of Italian positions continued.
aerial and’ artillery SE
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British troops at Tobruk ste swelling their Tarder with fish capght in stnet “made of calnoutiage netting
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and petrol tins.
Main British Force Joins Tobruk Troops After Rezegh Is Recaptured From Nazis
Ed Duda is four miles northwest | fighting had raged many hours yes-
CAIRO, Nov. 27 _®. P.) ~—Gireat i invading army strong opposition
, artillery and air “violent” fighting the Sidi Rezegh
forces continue on fluid lines
from. Tobruk | closed for the | one of the ment westward. It also cut on or greatly hampered the movement of enemy reinTorcements into the battle. Battle .lines were so fluid, howver. and the conflict spread ‘over such a wide area that British military spokesmen were uncertain— especially with | the battle “still ‘in progress—as to] whether the main enemy forces had been completely entrapped. NE
of Sidi Rezegh'and 17 miles southeast of Tobruk, where British forces have held out more than seven
months against German and Italian armies. The Tobruk troops took the
offensive when the British began
the offensive from last week. Ed ‘Duda had been’ captured by troops from Tobruk yesterday; a communique said, and. troops from
the main British forces reached
there today. Re-inforced and reformed British tank forces thundered into the battle of Rezegh, bolstered by a hardfighting column of New Zealand troops which cut down from Gambut and recaptured Rezegh, focal point of the battle, Tuesday night. The communique said a British foice had also reoccupied Bir EI Hamed in the face of heavy opposition. The New Zealanders who retook Sidi Rezegh were supported by tanks,
The . communique said heavy
terday in the Rezegh area in the battle” expected to determine the fate of Gen. Erwin Rommel’s German Africa corps. “It was not until early this morn< ing that elements of the relieving forces were able to join hands at} Ed Duda with a British force from
Tobruk which -yesterday capturedi: | that important locality,” the com-
munique said. . Headquarters said an Axis raiding force which yesterday|| smashed into Egypt near Sidi Omar and then broke up into a number of parties to operate on both sides of the Egypt-Libya frontier.
“In various brushés our columns yesterday accounted for five tanks|F
and 80 vehicles while 300 prisoners, most of them Germans, were cap-
tured,” the communique said of the
raiding Axis column. “Although the raid has a certain
nuisance value it has not succeeded]
in diverting us from our main obJeetive »
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| SAYS Report Moscow Break
lazi Encircling Thrusts at Capital Gain Headway, Reds Report.
| LONDON, Nov. 27 (U. P) ~The Mosca radio reported today that erman encircling ‘thrusts - north and south of the Soviet capital are gaining headway, and added: “The danger threa tening Moscow has grown.” The critical points, said the Russian radio, are: | 1. The Klin sector, northwest of the city, where the Nazis have ushed across a river, apparently a ‘of the Rs, rising
40 miles nort X miles to the
| 2. Stalinegorsk; 1 southeast. | (The Moscow radio heard by the United Press listening remains grave on the Volokolamsk
sector and
| The attack at Stalinogorsk was
_ 8BRLIN, Nov. 27 (U. P.).—The High Command admitted - today thet Russian forces have. attacked German positions in the vicinity of Rostov and to the north of that key city but said they had been besten back with heavy casualties. .Cierman armed forces were officlally reported to have broken through the Red Army defepse system before Moscow and captured the town of Klin as well as 14 villages behind the Russian fortified line. 4. spokesman said that the Germans also had held the town of Tichvin, southeast of Leningrad, since Nov. 9 and that it remained “firmly” in German hands despite Russian counter-attacks. The agency claimed that during the past 24 hours the German air force destroyed 300 vehicles on the south and central sectors of the
post in New |Ryussian front. The loss was said to|truck crashed into an abutment of York, reported that the. situation have had a “considerable effect on|the Nickle Plate Railroad cross-
the enemy’s supply of. munitions.” The High Command also reported that a Nazi submarine has
ough COSTA RICA UR
SAN JOSE, Costa 2 Rica @.F P. ). project has Esta submitted
British destroyer: off :the- Libyan Er da id oF
const and said fghting itr LIbYS 1\ins inking of the Pacific and and At continuing on a heavy scale; Janie oceans by 28 is Hove bee “off, the Cyrenaica coast. one way. Similar projects have k German. U-boat’ sank a British de- |Shelted in the past due to the ¢
position of railroad in stroyer of the. Jervis .class,”. the” , oo... : we de Fo a of an inter
-oceanic highway assert linking of the A (Ships of the Jervis class are of |lantic port of Limon with Punts 1695 tons and ‘carry normal comple-|Aernas on the Pacific’ coast would ments of 183 officers and men. The facilitate transport problems. They
Jervis was s completed In 1939) also point out that the highway : “ [would benefit the Limon and Punta P.)~|Arenas zones, which have suffered without, |economically as a result of shi ition today that ‘the Ru- [activities bang diverted to
stretch of road on the Atlantic side, CRASH KILLS 2 OHIONS and 25 miles on the Pacific side. ia
VALPARAISO, Ind. Nov. 27 air| (U. P.).—Paul Jones, 26, was burned to death today and John Thompson, 28, was injured fatally when their
82 SHIPS SUNK—ROME
ROME, Nov. 27. (U.P) ~Ttalis | submarines operating in the Atlantis have sunk 82 enemy ships totalling 524,958 tons since Italy entered the over on Road 30, a mile southeast |war, the newspaper Giornale d'Ttalia of here. Both were from Columbus, said today in a dispatch dated, “An Atlantic Submarine base.”
ing pressed by three panzer divi ons and three infantry divisions on a front about seven miles wide. The Nazis were advancing slowly th heavy losses, severing Moscow mmunications southward and utheastward.
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| The Nazis were said to be across the river south. of Klin at several laces: 4 Very large losses were being suf
Tered by both sides, radio reports
aid, and Russian troops have cared out a number of local coun-ter-attacks in an attempt to break e force of the advance. One village changed hands several times, I was said. . The Moscow radio reports said the attack has “reached the second stage in which the enemy is trying to Sngircle the capital and doing utmost to break through. Tula Fighting Fetes Fighting at Tula was "fierce as ever, particularly northeast of the wn. The Germans were said to e bombarding Tula with heavy artillery and mine throwers. At Mozhaisk the Germans caried out three attacks but were thrown baek. On the Kalinin fron{ a dimuntion of German activity was reportod because of their heavy losses ear the town of “S” where 5000 ermans were said to Have been killed and wounded and near “P” where they lost 8500,
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