Show ALLIES ADVANCE ON ROMMEL Continued from Page One the coastal rail line where axis forward forces were hemmed In against the sea bore the brunt of Rommel's desperate tank assault for the relief of his trapped troops The British tank onslaught in turn eased the pressure on the Australians lians and permitted the imperial imperial im im- land forces to continue their Battlefront dispatches said numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu German tanks were knocked out in the clash of steel while elsewhere the battle zone was strewn in places with the bodies bodies bodies bod bod- ies of Germans who tried in vain to escape the trap This pocket formed by Australian Australian Aus Aus- Australian infantry of Montgomery's British Eighth army was believed to be about eight miles long between between between be be- tween Tel El EI Eisa Elsa and Sidi Abd AbdEl AbdEl AbdEl El Rahman about 18 miles west of ofEl ofEl El EI Tuesdays Tuesday's said the new wedge was driven in the axis positions near the center of the theline theline theline line by infantry early Monday It was termed an important advance advance advance ad ad- vance in which many prisoners were taken An armored battle on a considerable considerable considerable con con- scale developed and continued continued continued con con- all day Heavy fighting continues con con- Axis particularly particular particular- ly the Italian stressed even more than did the British the violence of the combat between the sea and the depression about 80 miles west of Alexandria Allied fighters light and medium medium medium me me- bombers maintained attacks upon enemy positions in the battle area striking at axis airdromes and concentrations of men and machines ma ma- chines Fighter aircraft gave protection protection protection tion to our ground forces driving off formations which attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to bomb the que said Against 13 axis planes shot down over North Africa and Malta the British said 13 of their own had failed to return but in addition to these losses in aerial combat the axis squadrons were deprived of seven left in flames and others damaged in a raid on an air field Bombers scored direct hits on two axis destroyers in the Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Medi Medi- southwest of Crete and fired a medium sized merchant vessel and possibly hit a smaller one in an attack on a convoy northwest northwest northwest north north- west of it was announced |