DECISIVE VICTORY
END OF THE AXIS IN AFRICA ALLIES COMMAND SICILIAN STRAITS. AND VIRTUALLY CONTROL MEDITERRANEAN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, May 7. Correspondents state that our possession of Tunis and Bizerta, and the many airfields around them, means that this is the end of the Axis in Africa. There are no places where we cannot seek the enemy out. There are no details of the battles leading to the capture of the towns, but earlier reports say that Allied
tanks broke through to the plain and advanced on Tunis at speed. The Axis troops resisted fiercely, but the British First Army occupied Bardo, the meeting place of five roads. We then struck speedy and tremendous blows right across the northern tip of Tunisia. The North-West African Air Force dominated the air over the total area and kept up a terrific blitz. Control of Bizerta, which, next to Toulon, is the greatest naval base in the Mediterranean, gives the Allies control of the Sicilian Straits and virtual control of the Mediterranean.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1943, Page 3
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