HONOURS OF WAR
ACCORDED TO ITALIANS AT WOLCHEFIT SURRENDER INEVITABLE. OWING TO COMMUNICATIONS BEING CUT. (British Official Wireless.) (deceived This Day, 1.0 p.m.) RUGBY, October 2. Reports from Nairobi regarding the surrender of the Italian garrison at Wolchefit, a key position fifty miles north-east of Gondar, to Imperial and patriot forces, show that the garrison numbered 71 Italian officers, 1560 Italian troops, and 1300 African troops, and was about a quarter of the total Italian forces defending Gondar- and its neighbourhood. They held what appeared to be impregnable positions on the great ramp-like mountain tops of Wolchefit, which rise 5000 feet above sea level. Imperial patrols had been raiding into the enemy defences for a period of several months, while patriot forces, led by British officers, operating to the koiith, near Dabat, were able to cut the garrison’s Communications with Gondar. The only means of revictualling the garrison had been, by air, but this had been stopped by the presence recently of British planes. The Italians had only sufficient food to last them until the end of September when they surrendered. They were accorded the honours of war after a gallant defence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 6
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