GLOWING TRIBUTE
PAID TO NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS WAY HACKED THROUGH CREAM lOF ROMMEL’S INFANTRY., REVENGE TAKEN FOR GREECE & CRETE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) CAIRO, December 1. A glowing tribute to the New Zealanders who hacked their way through the cream of General Rommel’s infantry to join the Tobruk garrison >is paid by the “Sydney Morning Herald’s” war correspondent in Libya.
He says: “In their drive across the desert, the New Zealanders were attacked by tanks, but beat them off. For a time no supplies could get through to them and they suffered a shortage of water, food and ammunition, but they tightened their belts and carried on. They were heavily outnumbered and their communications were very much in the air, but these veterans of Greece and Crete took their revenge for what they had suffered. They had been ordered to link up with Tobruk and link up they did. It was one of the epics of this campaign and a glorious page in New Zealand’s history.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 6
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170GLOWING TRIBUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 6
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