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ACCEPTED BY GERMANS UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. AFRIKA KORPS LIQUIDATED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY, May 10. When all organised fighting ended on the Second United States Corps front, at 11 a.m. on Sunday, a correspondent at Allied headquarters says the German General Krause requested an armistice for the purpose of negotiating a surrender. The Second United States Corps offered him three terms for surrender —first, it must be unconditional; second, the terms must be accepted promptly; third, the destruction of German equipment must cease immediately. General Krause accepted the terms, and by 1 p.m. all German resistance had ceased. Of about 25,000 prisoners already counted in this sector, fewer than 400 were Italians. The count goes on. Heavy and bitter fighting continues in South-Eastern Tunisia. The Germans are resisting here and there. They gathered in very hilly country south-west of Cape Bon Peninsula. Armoured divisions are attacking them on the north of their positions, driving a wedge between them and the peninsula itself. Despite the German determination, our advance continues. The First Armoured Division is pushing down south of Creteville. On Sunday light armoured patrols reached a point about 12 miles east of the town, while the Nineteenth Corps, pressing forward east of Zaghouan. Meanwhile the Allied air forces were dealing with what might appear to be the first real sign of an attempt at evacuation. The Navy, with orders to burn, sink and destroy, has already closely blockaded the whole Cape Bon Peninsula. R.A.F. reports were specific. They said that Germans, in small ships and barges, waved white flags in surrender. Numerous vessels were blazing and sinking, and inland scores of trucks were burning by the roadside, where they had been shot up by fighters as the troops were making their way to the beaches.
Further German commanders who surrendered to the Americans were Majors-General Von Vaerst, of the Fifth Panzer Division, Nauffer, Von Daumsenge and Buloudious. The famous Afrika Korps was rapid-
ly liquidated. It is learned that the enemy tried to embark at Porto Farina before the Allied tanks approached, but were prevented by the quick action of Allied bombers, and surrendered. The harassed and disorganised enemy is undergoing a ceaseless pursuit by immense numbers of aircraft, which long since swept all opposition out of the skies. Scores of fighters and fighterbombers have already sunk many small craft loaded with troops, and stopped other boats landing. The Allied air operations, which also included devastating attacks on Palermo and the Pantellaria, were carried out with a loss of five aircraft.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1943, Page 3
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