ITALY’S DISASTERS
HUGE LOSSES OF MEN IN MEDITERRANEAN THEATRES & AFRICA. WELL OVER HALF A MILLION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 13. Italy has lost well over half a million effective soldiers during the campaign in the Mediterranean theatres of war, up to the end of June, 1941. When Hitler referred earlier in the year to the “slightest misfortunes” of his Axis partner, he must have been interpreting such misfortunes in an extr/ordinarily relative sense. Authoritative figures given in London show that in Libya, East Africa and Albania white prisoners totalled 241,000. while other white casualties reached the figure of 135,000. Of the native forces, 69,000 were made prisoners of war in these theatres of war, and 137,000 are included among other casualties. Of 132,000 native “other casualties” in East Africa, most of them were deserters. These figures in all cases are a close approximation, and it is fairly pointed out that most of the 25,000 white prisoners taken in the Albanian operations were released when Germany invaded Greece. The total figure of 582,000 Italian casualties is not thereby considerably lessened. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 6
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