ON BIG SCALE
ASSAULT FIFTY MILES SOUTH OF TUNIS Wedge Driven by Strong Forces of Infantry FOLLOWING ON NINETY-MINUTE BARRAGE (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.in.) RUGBY, April 20. GENERAL MONTGOMERY’S EIGHTH ARMY HAS LAUNCHED A NEW BIG-SCALE ATTACK AGAINST THE AXIS FORCES SOME FIFTY MILES SOUTH OF TUNIS AND HAS MADE A BREACH / NEAR THE COAST. THIS INFORMATION IS GIVEN IN A SPECIAL ALGIERS COMMUNIQUE, WHICH ADDS THAT THE . NEW OFFENSIVE BEGAN LAST NIGHT AND FORCED A BREACH NEAR ENFIDAVILLE AND THAT A HEAVY BATTLE CONTINUES. The announcement followed earlier German reports of heavy fighting. A correspondent says the attack began shortly after 9 p.m., with one of the Eighth Army’s famous artillery barrages. This was followed ninety minutes later by.an advance by strong forces of infantry which, with a series of hard-hitting punches, drove a wedge into the Axis defences.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 3
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144ON BIG SCALE Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 3
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