Show 5tt" 9" A Uvibunl Sunday Axis Radios Besiecre tn Air With Alibis for Defeat Nl orning May 9 1943 Yanks Prove 'Mettle in Tunisia Rout By United Press Achieve Victory In First Big European Test 4- - Interpretative—Opinion By Captain towel! Limpus New York News Military Analyst ORLAist1)0 Fla May 8 (IP)-This was handwriting-on-the-waweek Northern Tunisia furnished the wall—and the allied armies did the handwriting as they crashed through to take Tunis and Bizerte and herd the axis back to the sea It was large clear handwriting too—and the American portion of it was especially legible for mining axis readers In graphic letters offire the Yank contribution to the joint victory spelled out the coming doom right before the eyes of Hitler and Mussolini Because this week the: American army passed its field test That was more important than cleaning up Tunisia it was probably the most development since Pearl Harbor It finally proved we've got what it takes to lick the axis This field test was outlined in these :columns last November when it was described in an intervieW with Lieutenant General Lesd ley J McNair the fighting man who forged the weapon which Eisenhower used this week to break the German lines at Mateur McNair is in Walter Reed hospital recuperating from a wound received at the front but he must be getting a lot of satisfaction out of the way his weapon proved itself in action "Combat experience against battle-trie- d veterans" was the way the commanding general of the army ground forces on November 22 described the final test needed to turn the men he had trained into "a real fighting field force" And it was needed in the open field against Germany's best (MacArthur already demonstrated we could handle the Japs) Corps Graduates Last week saw the Yanks of the American Fifth army'e Second corps prove they had been graduated The advance guard of the new A E F showed Hitler what to expect when the rest of the outfit arrives The action did not loom very large on the great global field of war It was only a small part of a general offensive involving three field armies in a combined attack But the Yanks did itheir job with a grim efficiency which demonstrated that they have mastered the technique of mechanized war There is no doubt now that Uncle Sam's nephews can learn to take on Europe's best and whip them at their own game g It was the style In which our boys performed that told the story They staged a new blitz that kind of "supermen" ripped the apart We may lose some battles hereafter—and we probably will— but the world knows that Americans can- lick the axis whenever they get their share of the breaks We smashed right through the German lines with unexpected speed and power We did it by hammering them to bits with our new planes and then blasting the remnants with artillery fire more deadly than anything since MacArthur unleashed a similar blast wtth his handful of guns on Bataan We threw our new 105-mhowitzers into the backed up with giant 155- fray rnm rifles And we used the new Fort Sill fire control technique to shift their massed showers of lead on chosen targets until we blew holes right through their lines Then our well trained infantry stormed in to clean up the tanks followed and that was that tThe bazookas- probably helped ll Berlin clung doggedly Saturday to its assertion that street fighting still raged in Tunis but its axis partner Rome admitted that allied forces had overcome "the heroic resistance of the defenders of Tunis and Bizerte" Other details of axis broadcasts were conflicting and it was indicated that most If mot all uf their African communicaticns had been cut off The Paris radio quoted a Wilhelmstrasse spokesman as saying that "whatever the outcome Jf the battle of Tunisia it will not have a decisive influence on the issue of the war" struction of military installations In an apparent effort to soften the blow for the home folks both radios emphasized in many broadcasts that the allies despite overwhelming superiority of arms needed six months to score their African triumph The Berlin radio said that the allies were "15 to 20" times superior' than axis forces in Tunisia Rome said the figure was "10 to 1" Rome reached a propagandâ high when it said that Japanese Premier General Hideki Tojo's recent statement that Japan was poised for a powerful decisive blow came at a moment favorable for Japan n "as most of the forces are engaged far away in the Mediterranean" One Italian speaker heard Anglo-America- Rome said that "loss of the African bridgehead is not a decisive factor in pursuit of The Atlantic wall the war is built and Italy has taken all necessary steps" The German communique acknowledged "considerable losses" and said that Bizerte had been evacuated after de In New 'York by C B S com- mented that: "The Tunisian campaign provides an epic chapter in tIalian history because we fought on although we did not stand a chance" fear-reachi- ng - General Eisenhower Hails Victory With Grin grim-jawe- blood-curdlin- air-artille- ry so-call- ed - self-propell- ed m - too) The significance of the Ameri- can action lay in the fact that this h enabled original the allied armies to seize the stratel-ic key to the ent)re north Tunisia position — and directly cpened the way for the capture of the two cities The British First and Eighth armies and the French air corps share in the glory and we couldn't have won without their contributions— but our boys captured the key that unlocked the doors Our plans for the European Invasion suffered a distinct handicap when brilliant Lieutenant General Frank M Andrews commander of the theater died in an airplane accident in Iceland His prompt replacement by Lieutenant General Jacob L Devers capable armored force chief is reassuring however break-throug- By John Thompson Chicago Tribune Nilre ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA May 8 —It was a tired but grinning commander in chief who sat Saturday at his press conference Tired because he had just returned Friday night from his second tour of the front lines in a week Grinning because the allier armies and air forces had smashed to a great victory in Tunisia He peered at the last bits of axis held territory on the war map on the wall He said there would be no let up in the smashing offensive until every axis soldier had 1- 0- China—(Official) been captured or driven from the areas east and south of Bizerte CHUNGKING May 8 (UP)--and the Cap Bon peninsula fierc e Chinese counterattack Japanese landing forces against "What has impressed me more on the south shore of Tung Ting than enanything else during my lake at Yulangchow cost the emy half his forces and forced visits to the forward areas" said the remaining half to flee from General Eisenhower "has been the shore in their boats a high comdemand communique said Saturday perfection of the coordination n the allies veloped among However on the Hupeh-HunaMany of border the Chinese were forced the early prejudices or little difto evacuate Ainsing city west of ferences that you would - expect Nanhsierts in the face of a concen- among the allied forces have distrated air and ground attack appeared Everybody is 100 per A Japanese column which began cent for everybody else" "The coordination between the a drive from Hwajung on May- 4 and was beaten back called for air and ground forces has been 'the elan of the reinforcements and renewed the remarkable push southward Fighting contin- troops even when in many cases ued in the vicinity of Ushan they have been reduced to as little Several Japanese troops in ci- as one platoon per company is vilian clothes managed to infil- still very high And that is not trate the Chinese lines at Hukow just due to the successes since northwest of Ainsing but were May 6 When the battling was rounded up and wiped out hard it was a really inspiring In northern Honan Chinese sur- thing to see Naturally I am deprise attacks in the last 10 days lighted with the developments at Siwu Kuchin Wenhsien and that brought us into Bizerte and Foal have cost the Japanese heavy Tunis but so far as I am concasualties cerned as long as a single armed Jap reinforcements several German is on African soil there is thousand strong moved into the still a battle and I will want to area to bolster the battered rem- destroy the rest of the enemy's renants and were met by the Chi- sistance nese Fighting continues "This battle again has shown the great advantage in the unification which we achieved by putting Alexander (General Harold Alexander commander of allied ground forces) up front and letBy United Press ting him handle the battle line Moscow radio in a broadcast from day to day He has been able recorded by C B S in New York to transfer each force to where he Saturday charged the Germans wanted it and has handled the batare using Russian war prisoners tle line as a single unit We are as live targets in the training of now seeing the results of that young recruits so they can see unification It speaks well for the "the living enemy and his blood" tremendously difficult tasks still The broadcast asserted that a lying ahead of the united nations German prisoner testified that in that the entire war picture is ever the training camp at Schwiebus present in his mind in Germany the commanding offi"Tunis was but another milecer had ordered German recruits stone as were El Alamein the to use five Russian prisoners as great Libyan desert Trioolitania live targets in shooting practice Mareth El Guetar and the other Each prisoner the broadcast battles just as Tunisia itself is claimed was killed after being only one curling pleee of cardboard wounded in dozens of places in the greater jigsaw puzzle" Chinese Repel Jap Attack - Moscow Charges Prisoner Slayings Allies Chase Beaten Axis Toward Sea in Africa 113:1:: get-! !f ): I Don 76- - UTAH It Thursday a AIME ornb ir"''!" ' o' so:len:it:0 To THEATRE—Starts - Romance with t iat A COLUMBIA PICTURE He also read a message from President Roosevelt saying: "American workers whose labor Is devoted to the turning out of arms and military equipment for the defenders of our common cause ask only that the fruits of their labor be placed in the hands of those imbued with the determination to use them to the fullest LONDON fn r11 volt 0 : tco RIM PIP trA iLik c73 1111"1 -- - 00 t 416"CI t - RSU il I r ) StIli S alDE - k ti rr 1‘ F fleet allied t) ii 8 ? j 0 11 10—Anxious !i May Italy jutting out like a sore thumb from axis Europe into the t hostile Mediterranean faces the perplexing problem of celebrating i "empire day" Sunday tor the empire she has lost while Premier Mussolini's cabinet and military leaders worry in secret session over means to save their main- - i ' land i No announcement was forth- - i coming after the first urgent cabinet meeting in Italy since the fall of Tunis and Bizerte left the beaten axis armies a scant slip- - i ping toehold in Mussolini's van- - I ished dream empire But the Italian public could i read into an editorial by Virginio Gayda who serves as a sort of i official echo the open acknowledgment of the imminence of Italy's zero hour 1 "The exigencies of tomorrow have made us restrict the use of our war material to the absolute- ly necessary minimum" Gayda It wrote in a soured keynote to the t empire day "celebration" "Today this phase of the war has come to its epilogue Today ' it seems the battle is coming nearer to Italy All powers of resistance are necessary This is the most dramatic momen 11 of Italian history" Gayda wrote In equally grim mood Political 11 Commentator Imberto Gugliel- motti said on the Rome radio that "all Italians feel that the I battle has drawn closer Meanwhile the European fortress f Is massing more and more ner- gies to face any eventual threats I from the enemy" I And in a message which he or- - f dered broadcast to "our faraway t! brothers" across the Mediterra- - i nean Premier Mussolini said "the sea has never divided us and is i not dividing us now" although north Africa "has become the theater for shameless prowess of Americans who are revealing their primitive redskin strain" The message concluded: "We li shall return" Lost to Italy already are Somaliland Eritrea Libya and the I overlordship of Ethiopia Endangered directly are her plum Sicily and moun- tainous strategic Sardinia and i Corsica Remaining are her thin slice of Nice and Savoy in southern li Franc e and the Dodecanese lir islands plus dubious military po- - 1 lice power over parts of the re- 4 bellious Balkans sea-born- of the Italian Capital been withdrawn to fleets haveships points of greater security and without the full weight of the Italian fleet any evacuation attempt would be suicidal In the last 72 hours I have traveled from one end of the trouble area of the Mediterranean to the other by land sea and air and the impression is inescapable that if the Germans don't make an evacuation attempt the British Mediterranean unit will be the most disappointed outfit on the face of the earth During that time I accompanied patrols in seaplanes at night looking for shipping that simply isn't there There's not one minute of the night that wicked little torpedo-carryin- g midgets of the fleet aren't combing the waters between Africa ready to Italy and north strike The most they have been able to report in recent days have been midget units like themselves plus lighters and Seidel ferries — flat - 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Ii7) S 1 pose" 1 wzgpg1 11 144? any Nation Celebrates For Nation That Has Vanished WITH THE BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN FLEET May 5 (Delayed) (A')—Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham commanding the allied Mediterranean fleet says that a minimum of 75 per cent of axis troops embarking from Tunisia in an attempted Dunkerque would be blasted into the sea and drowned And there's not the slightest indication today that they will ate tempt a getaway There is no mass of shipping on either side of the Mediterranean which the Germans could use Waters between Sicily Sardinia and the coast of north Africa are dominated by the big guns of the htt-vi- 4IV 1114? Survey Reveals No Ships Massed For Escape Attempt S(' (Continued From Page One) in the north made it essentially an thigh commissioner participated in a ceremony here marking the infantry fight it was said of American equipment Eisenhower also declared that transfernew French army the result of the unification of the for the said that when the Eisenhower unBritish French and Americans he der General Sir Harold Alexander allies landed in north Africa the deputy commander in chief "proclaimed the pledge of the States and "speaks well for the tremendously president of the United government of Great Britain difficult tasks lying ahead of the the to rearm those Frenchmen who united nations" only opportunity and weapsought Genallied and The commander the fight against the eral Henri Giraucl the French ons to resume axis for the deliverance of their native land" (43?-0Addressing Giraud as the leader 7?' of French forces in north Africa A 17 es'Ir' —is (14')7 dPAA Eisenhower said: "I am happy to 4i 14'- :" Al transfer these implements of war to Frenchmen inspired by that pur) I': even-more-nota- Admiral Sees Italy Confronts No Chance of Hollow Rite Axis Getaway Of Empire Day BONDS! 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