ALONG THE MARETH LINE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1943, Page 3

ALONG THE MARETH LINE

Progress of British Flanking Move REPORTED CAPTURE OF HEIGHT COMMANDING / GABES PLAIN AMERICANS MAKING HEADWAY FURTHER NORTH

LONDON, March 26. Correspondents at Allied Headquarters in North Africa state that violent fighting- is still raging along the Mareth Line. According to the Algiers radio, the pitch of the battle is growing in intensity hour by hour. General Eisenhower’s’latest communique states that the Allied infantry have made some progress and improved their positions. , „ .. , , There is no official news of the desert force which outflanked the Mareth Line and reached a point about eight miles from El Hamma. The Algiers radio reports that this force has i taken an important position dominating the plain between the great salt lake and Gabes. Further north the Germans made local attacks on the Americans in the Gafsa and Maknassi sectors, but m<|de no headway. Yesterday, the Americans were consolidating their gains east of El Guetar. They are pushing forward along the hills, ridge by ridge. For the sixth day running, Allied aircraft have continued their heavy attacks on the enemy all along a 200 mile front, from the north to the Mareth Line. Fighters made a record number of sorties in Central and Northern Tunisia. . A correspondent in Malta says there is lively satisfaction aong the people on the island over the news that last night one of Malta’s intruder aircraft flew over the suburbs of Rome in moonlight and attacked a railway station and train. On its / way back, it shot up a train and road transport at Naples.