NO HEART FOR FIGHT
ITALIANS AND PRISON CAMP Many stories have been told of the lack of enthusiasm for the fighting in Libya by the Italians, whom General Sir Archibald Wavell's forces defeated in Libya last December. The men who recently returned invalided from the Middle East have not only confirmed these stories but have added further details. Captain L. A. Radford, of Hamilton, who was a transport officer during the campaign, said it was. the hardest job in the world to lose the Italians. When taken prisoner and ordered on to trucks for transport to prison camps, they fought for positions »n the lorries to save being left behind. He told of one .instance when Italian prisoners were being driven back in an Italian truck. The truck broke down, so the Allied driver was picked up and the Italians left in tlio truck in the desert to be "collected" later. After a short time there was a big cloud of dust behind, the ItalI ians having repaired the vehicle and driven it along at high speed to catch up with their captors
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 156, 17 September 1941, Page 2
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183NO HEART FOR FIGHT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 156, 17 September 1941, Page 2
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