APPARENT ENEMY AIM
JUNCTION IN TUNISIA GROWING POWER OF ALLIED ATTACKS. AIR & DJAVAL OPERATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, December 21. ■ Now that Rommel’s forces are about halfway from El Agheila to Tripoli, in their headlong flight, the opinion is forming in London that the enemy s future efforts in Africa will be confined to retaining control of the Sicilian narrows as long as possible. _ It is expected that the forces in Tripolitania will aim at making an effective junction with those in Tunisia. Rearguard actions will probably be fought at points of vantage in Tripoliia Although a junction of Rommel with General Nehring in Tunisia would strengthen the. defence of the enemy s African bridgehead, a simultaneous fusing of the two Allied campaigns from cast and west might strengthen the attack. The effects of the coming fusion are. already visible in the air, as the Eighth Army operates _ airfields nearer and nearer the Tunisian theatre. At the same time the Navy s freedom of action against enemy supply ships increases daily with the advance of the British land and air forces towards Tripoli.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1942, Page 3
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