Late News LOST IMPORTANT GROUND

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 101, 23 January 1943, Page 5

Late News LOST IMPORTANT GROUND

Allies In Northern Tunisia MONTGOMERY MAY TAKE A HAND (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received January 23, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, January 22. The Cairo correspondent of the Columbia Broadcasting System says that the long voyage to the west will soon be over, with the victorious Eighth Army a few hours from the gates of Tripoli, which is preparing today for their entry. "It will be interesting to see bow many Italian troops will be abandoned this time,” the correspondent says. “The evidence in the last few days is that Rommel has been giving the German armour special priority, and a portion of his armoured forces have already crossed the Tunisian frontier. It should not take long to clean up the few scattered Italian forts remaining beyond Tripoli. “Tripoli will not be the last o£ the Eighth Array’s achievements. General Montgomery promised to knock Roinmel for six out of Africa, and he. will do it if lie follows the Afrika Corps to Tunis. He will drive Rommel till he drops.” . , In Tunisia British reinforcements have readied the Pont du Fahs area, where', according to the Allied Headquarters spokesman, the Allies have lost important ground. I'be Algiers correspondent of the Associated tress says that German Links and infantry driving south-west from Pont du l*aus have reached a point about two miles from Robaa, which is 27 miles liotn Pont du Falls.