"AWFUL LIARS."
BROADCAST BY ITALIANS. STORY OF BOMBING ATTACK. NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. "The other day the Italians broadcast that they had killed 80 per cent of the New Zealanders with bombs. They are awful liars. Nobody was hurt." So writes Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. Varnham, M.C., E.D., officer commanding the 19th (Wellington) Battalion of the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt, under date August 31, in a letter to Mrs. Varnham, New Plymouth. "We are wearing sun helmets now " added the letter. "They have the New Zealand badge in front and my battalion has a red diamond on the pugaree on the left-hand side. They look quite smart, but take a bit of getting used to the appearance after our felt hats. "Spread out as we are here each company does its own cooking and feeding arrangements. This applies also to the officers, so each company has its own little officers' mess, consisting of a tent. . . . For field work like this We purchased some time ago two small kerosene stoves and the men all have their own mess utensils, and the company keep a few spares for mess visitors."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 226, 23 September 1940, Page 3
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