Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1942 — Page 19

BRITISH GUARD | | AGAINST TRAP

C, | "Face Difficulties in Chasing

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Rommel; Watch for

: Land Mines.

¢ By NAT A. BARROWS

© t, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, Dec. 17.—Thousands|:

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kind of land mine and bobby trap —carefully planted during the months after Gen. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa korps re-

captured the El Agheila and Mersa |§ Brega position—are giving the 8th|3

army’s main advance forces plenty of trouble as the Germans hourly

withdraw further westward toward |{

Misurata. : British sappers have been able to open narrow channels across the salt flats along the Gulf of Sirte enough for fast mobile units to

maintain rearguard whipping con-|§

tact, but heavier units must cary out the pursuit with the greatest caution. Rommel’s calculated plan for abandonment of El Agheila without battle finds Italian troops left in the rear as a delaying action screen.

Guard Against Trap

The important question now is where Rommel is going to make his stand. Is he seeking to draw the 8th army into trap prepared near Misurata, following his own consolidation with the Tunisian commander, Gen. Walter Nehring, thus drawing on the concentrated strength of the German army in 4 Tunisia and easing his own supply

W. J. Rice (left), assistant meteorologist at the weather bureau in the Federal building, prepares a new chart for the meteorograph. J. H. Armington, head of the bureau, reals the chart already on the machine

which records sunshine, rainfall and wind direction and velocity.

Montgomery's quartermaster headaches? Certainly, Rommel’s withdrawal from El Agheila, starting Dec. 13, was part of a carefully designed plan. His decision may have been forced by the intensive allied air offensive of 10 days ago, driving German airfield operation as far back as Nofilia (90 miles west of El

and fighter pilots a chance to harry the ground troops. Some observers here see a possibility that Rommel may be heading for the so-called Mareth line over the Libyan border to Tunisia where he would have the advantages of the port of Tripoli, plus right flank protection via the long narrow lake

The French constructed this Mareth line when Mussolini began eyeing North Africa. Meanwhile, regardless of where Rommel has elected to make his stand, the 8th. army must proceed with the greatest caution—rapid enough to keep contact with the rearguards but above all slow enough to avoid devilishly cunning

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