INDIAN TROOPS PRAISED
Turning to East Africa, the Prime Minister spoke of the fall of Keren at a cost of about four thousand British and Imperial casualties and referred to the part played in the campaign by Indian troops, "who at al! points and on all occasions sustained the reputation of the martial races of Hindustan.”
After speaking of the fall of Massawa, Mr Churchill said the Red Sea was virtually cleared of enemy warships, which he described as "a matter of considerable and even far-reaching convenience." The Duke of Aosta's army, he continued, had retreated into the mountains and the complete destruction or capture of all the Italian forces in Abyssinia, with corresponding relief to operations elsewhere, might reasonably be expected. ’'
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 6
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