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LONDON--The British fleet has joined the battle in Tunisia, where Allied forces have beaten back on Axis counter assault and are pushing on toward bomb-shattered Bizerte and Tunis supported planes, an Allied communique announced tonight.
LONDON--Allied bombers heralding the final assault in Tunisia have set the Bizerte airport ablaze, a communique announced tonight, and other advices said Allied assault troops have sliced through to the sea between Tunis and Bizerte to pen up the Axis garrisons in the two ancient citadels.
A previous communique said the fighting had progressed to cast of Djedeida, within ten miles of Tunis, but tonight's did not mention the exact positions, reporting that Allied advance units were keeping up strong pressure in the vicinity of Djedeida and Mateur, 20 miles south of Tunis
The news last week was fragmentary. Virtually all that General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters revealed was that Allied forces were moving steadily eastward from Algeria. The advance was four-pronged -one prong aimed at the Gulf of Gabes in order to cut any communication with Rommel's troops...
At week's end one column was ploughing into Gabes. Axis reserves, probably from Tripolitania, had either infiltrated through the Allied southern prong or dashed ahead of it and were streaking northward to the aid of Tunis. Fighting all along the contracting front grew heavier. Inexorably, to the north...