BRITISH PRISONERS
1 ITALIAN MOTOR-SCHOONER SEIZED NINE MEN DRIVE 115 UNDER HATCHES. , ON APPROACH OF DESTROYER — I 'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) 'Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, January G. When an Australian destroyer fired on the Italian motor-schoon-er Zingarelli, in the Mediterranean nine British soldiers imprisoned in the hold dashed up, opened a hatchway, overpowered the guard, and battened down the hatches, imprisoning 115 Italian soldiers and j sailors. The British sergeant then forced the | captain of the schooner to follow the ! destroyer to an Egyptian port. Four- ; teen hours later the British marched | their prisoners ashore at Solium. The i nine British soldiers reported to Des- ! ert headquarters, ready for the next j job. j The captain of the destroyer said the ■ Italians apparently intended taking the | prisoners to Tobruk as showpieces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1941, Page 6
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