FLYING FORTRESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1943, Page 3

FLYING FORTRESS

WON BY GENERAL MONTGOMERY. THE CAPTURE OF SFAX. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, April 18. “What will you give me if I take Sfax by April 15?” asked General Montgomery when dining with a group of American generals just before the capture of Tripoli. The Americans said they would bet anything. General Montgomery suggested a Flying Fortress as the stake. The giant bomber arrived yesterday as General Montgomery’s personal plane till the end of the war. Sfax was occupied on the morning of April 10. FRENCHMEN IN SOUSSE FORCED TO LABOUR FOR NAZIS. MACHINE-GUNNED ON TRYING TO TAKE COVER. LONDON, April 18. French workers in the bomb-batter-, ed railway yard at Sousse told a correspondent of the “Daily Mail” that they bore no hard feelings about the devastating Allied bombing. They realised that the Germans had to be blasted from such a strategically important point. One said, “We were forced to work at the point of a pistol. Several of our friends have been taken away because of their sabotage efforts. We dug trenches beside the railway for shelters, but the Germans insisted that we work through the raids, and they machinegunned us when we tried to take cover.”