British Retake Tunisian Hill

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--The British First Army has recaptured Fort McGregor and "Tally-Ho Corner" in Northern Tunisia, driving the Axis garrisons into the hills, and has repelled German thrusts elsewhere on the north front with heavy losses, war reports said tonight.

Both points were taken yesterday after they had been in Axis possession less than 24 hours and a threat that the southwest sector of the British line at Bou Arada would be isolated was removed at least for the moment. Bon Arada is 20 miles south of Medjez-El-Bab. Fort McGregor and Tally-Ho Corner, a road junction, lies in between.

In two days of sharp fighting, the Germans had suffered heavy losses including 15 to 20 tanks of the 50 with which they had started the operations and 850 men as prisoners, front dispatches revealed.