EAGER TO SURRENDER
TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN EAST AFRICA. NATIVE TROOPS MELTING AWAY. LONDON, April 7. Free French patrols are now eight miles from Massawa. They came down from the north. The British are 10 miles west of Massawa. British troops, including Sudanese, who are operating 80 miles from Asmara, near Adigrat, have captured three brigade commanders and 86 other officers. The native troops they commanded rapidly melted away after the fall of Asmara. Towns and villages are surrendering eagerly as the British patrols race southward.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1941, Page 5
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86EAGER TO SURRENDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1941, Page 5
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