COASTAL ADVANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1943, Page 3

COASTAL ADVANCE

FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT PONT DU FAHS POSITIONS CONSOLIDATED. SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON U-BOAT IN ATLANTIC. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, April 30. A French North Africa communique states: “In the coastal sector, advanced elements of our forces pushed forward and occupied Jebel Doureau, representing an advance of about four kilometres. “In the region of Pont du Fahs there have been artillery and patrol activity. Our troops in this sector have consolidated their positions and have continued mopping-up operations. During an enemy sortie 60 Italian prisoners were captured. “In the sector of Zaghouan, our troops occupied the eastern part of Jebel Geraffa. “Our naval air force attacked with success an enemy U-boat in the Atlantic.” BIG MOTOR SCHOONER ATTACKED BY FIGHTERS FROM MALTA. SHIP LAST SEEN BURNING & ABANDONED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, April 30. A Malta ' dispatch statets that fighters attacked a large motor schooner off the Sicilian coast and left it burning and abandoned. ~ SCARLET POPPIES ON NEW ZEALAND GRAVES IN TUNISIA. ANZAC DAY TRIBUTE. (Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F) NEAR ENFIDAVILLE, April 24. On each of a group of New Zealand graves lying beside the EnfidavilleKairouan road, on the outskirts of a New Zealand unit area the morning of Anzac Day saw a simple but effective tribute —a large bunch of scarlet poppies, gathered from the nearby fields, which are ablaze with wild flowers. Farther back, beside another of the roads which criss-cross the unfenced barley fields, a group of Tommies was seen laying similar wreaths upon two solitary New Zealand graves beside this transient highway of war.