MINOR OPERATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1942, Page 3

MINOR OPERATIONS

REPORTED IN TUNISIA. GERMAN PARTY AMBUSHED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, December 14. A correspondent with the advanced British forces in Eastern Tunisia reports: “Saturday was a quiet day on the front, neither side making contact. Our forces hold Mcdjez el Barb and regrouping on high ground north-west of the town has been completed. French infantry arc holding- part of the line. British troops on Friday ambushed a party of Germans moving towards their positions. Concealing themselves by Ihe roadside, our troops waited until the Germans passed and then attacked them in the rear, killing some and taking fifty prisoners. After a spell of inactivity on the northern sector, German infantry launched a small attack, but it was quickly driven back and the enemy lost 50 killed. The British losses were only a handful. /Reports indicate that the enemy is still bringing up troops and stores. In Friday's attack they employed light tanks as well as the heavy tanks which they had used so far.”