ALLIES IN TUNISIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1942, Page 4

ALLIES IN TUNISIA

ENTRY AT SEVERAL POINTS SUCCESSES AGAINST ENEMY AIRCRAFT. SUBMARINES ACTIVELY HUNTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) " RUGBY, November 18. Allied Force Headquarters states that advanced elements of the First Army, together with British and American paratroops and French forces operating with the .United States, have entered Tunisia at several points.. Contacts were made with enemy scouting parties. , , General Giraud has visited leading French units. French anti-aircraft fire yesterday shot down one enemy plane. , ~ German transport planes, attempting to land on a point on the Tunisian coast, were driven off by French parties. . The French authorities m Norm Africa have issued a general mobilisation order for the class of 1939. At Oran, French troops leaving for the east were accompanied to the train by an escort of honour and music from the United States forces there. R.A.F. bombers have attacked en-emy-occupied objectives in Tunisia. United States planes, co-operating with the First Army and the R.A.F., have made daylight raids on airfields at Bizerta. . Eleven enemy aircraft are known to have been destroyed in the course of attacks on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in the Bona area, flye being shot down by the R.A.F. and six by anti-aircraft lire. Three of our fighters were lost, but two of the pilots are safe. The hunt for submarines by the Royal Navy, naval aircraft and the R.A.F. continues with considerable success.