Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1943 — Page 2

LONDON, Feb. 11 (U. P).—The eighth army, apparently in “hammered the Afrika Korps inside Tunisia with artillery ed cars today. ‘The middle eastern command annced that ‘the British eighth y yesterday was in contact with|man Afrika Korps east of Bengar- , which is 20 miles inside th line. Afrika Korps wos resisting, east along ‘the coastal sector,’ ause there the middle eastern pmmand reported artillery duels. The allied headquarters com-

ton on the north Tunisian front]

erally quiet. “ foes

was gen : Weather comditions : Jair activity over the battle area, - Tuesday -night, medium diel attacked the airdromes at Heraklion, Kastelli and Pediada, in Ger-man-held Crete, had previously attacked by American Mitchell bombers on Tuesday evening. Fighjer-bombers f r o m Malta blasted railway: targets in southern Sicily, and heayy bombers bombed shipping in: ‘harbor during the day yesterday. Vase Probably the boribers that attacked Palermo. harbor were Ameri-

A’ can to ca)

cans were thrown back by a counterattack. “Whether this action was. t to be the beginning of an offensive by the American fifth army remains to be seen,” the dispatch said. The same dispatch claimed the Afrika Korps had repulsed two ate

tempts by the British eighth army}

to drive around the .southern end of the Mareth line, an admission ‘that considerable forces of the eighth army were 70 miles into Tunisia. = :

nique said Jeday that the situa- can flying. fortresses or Liberators.

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=| He could and did throw his whole!

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=| both times he had the maximum

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=| Mussolini, and from his unwilling associates — Austria, Hungary. Ru-!

mania, Bulgaria and Finland, A Third Try? A third try next summer would

Of necessity it would be much weaker than the other two. His stooges are all but ready to drop out of the picture, He and his Nazis would have to conduct the offensive practically alone. Not only

EB! that, but in 1943 he faeces the cer-

tainty of at least one major second front in western or southern Europe, and the possibility of . still other fronts in widely separated

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Military Secret What - President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill decided at Casablanca will remain a: military secret until clash of arms

= | somewhere in Europe announces it|3 =| to the world. And the same may be

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E| America, and Britain can provide

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‘E| a united nations drive scmewhere|£

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&| Turkey as the spearhead. Fourth,

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S| traffie carrying supplies to Turkey

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North Africa. Must Meet Them All Hitler cannot

he can to meet them all. Not to do

=| so would brand him an even bigger

=| to be.

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