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SLAUGHTERED BY NAZIS PRIOR TO EVACUATION OF TRIPOLI. CITY NOW GARRISONED BY SCOTTISH TROOPS) (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 27i A garrison of Scottish toops is guarding Tripoli, which is returning to normal. The British have already arranged to alleviate the food shortage. Bakeries and breweries are again working and the Italians are offering their services freely to the British. Italian cabarets are reopening to amuse the British troops. The night before the arrival of the Eighth Army in Tripoli the Germans slaughtered leading Jews in cold blood. The Jews were packed into a ramshackle ghetto surrounded with barbed wire, on the excuse that they might be useful to the Allies, says the United Press correspondent in Tripoli. The remaining thousands who were locked up in the ghetto have now been released and are mingling freely with the Italian and Arab'population. ATTACK ON BIZERTA SHIPS OFF COAST ALSO BOMBED ENEMY DESTROYER LEFT ON FIRE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 28. An Allied North African communique says: “Light bombers and fighters attacked enemy ground targets. Bombers on Tuesday attacked enemy objectives at Bizerta. Yesterday, two enemy destroyers were bombed between Tunisia and Sicily, one being left on fire. From these operations one of our planes is missing. “It is now known that a total of six enemy bombers was destroyed in Tuesday night’s attack on Algiers. AMERICAN LOSSES IN TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.28 a.m.) * RUGBY, January 28. United States casualties in Tunisia to date are 211 killed, 532 wounded and 515 missing. Of the missing, 226 have been reported prisoners of war. THOUGHT UNLIKELY LENGTHY AXIS STAND ON MARETH LINE. ESTIMATE OF ENEMY STRENGTH.(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 p.m.) RUGBY, January -‘2B. A correspondent with the Eighth Army reports that rearguard encounters continued yesterday, but bad weather almost entirely stopped air activity. The terrain is unfavourable for a rapid advance. The Allied positions in Tunisia now
fun in a fairly straight line from Mejdez* el Bab to a few miles west of Kairouan. It is estimated that Rommel now commands about 50,000 men and possibly a hundred tanks. It is probably true that only 20,000 of these are front line soldiers, the rest being base and garrison troops picked up in the retreat.. The arguments against making a permanent stand with such a force on the Mareth Line are strong. His front, extending from the north coast west of Bizerta to Mareth would be 250 miles long and the combined Axis force of 120,000 to 140,000 would be very thinly spread and unfavourably placed. It is expected, therefore, that the enemy will stay on the Mareth Line only as long as he dares and not long enough to risk a second El Alamein. FRENCH REPORT LAND AND AIR OPERATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 28. The Morocco radio this morning broadcast the following communique from French Headquarters, North Africa: “Local actions were fough in the region of Ousseltia. Northward of this point French forces mopped up the terrain of about 10 to 15 kilometres. To the east, French forces, in co-operation with American forces, advanced. North of Pichon our forces occupied a position previously held by Italians. “From daylight operations two planes of the Lafayette squadron failed to return. Two enemy bombers were shot down during a raid on Algiers.”-
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