MISSING SOLDIERS
NEARLY 6.000 AUSTRALIANS. ANNOUNCEMENT BY ARMY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, June 19. Australian troops who failed to return from the campaigns in Greece and Crete totalled 5951, the Minister for the Army (Mr P. C. Spender) announced in the House of Representatives today. The figures, he said, were at variance with those released some time ago and he was unable to get an explanation. A cablegram from the International Red Cross stated that 9000 British, Australian and New Zealand troops were prisoners in Greece.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1941, Page 6
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