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AS TO OUTCOME OF WAR IN LIBYA READINESS OF SOME ITALIANS TO SURRENDER. SOME SHOW FIRMER SPIRIT. (Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) CAIRO, December 7. Outside Tobruk, November 27: In a night attack a South Island officer with a small party ran into 40 Italians who threw down their arms as the New Zealanders approached. When the party, hampered by the prisoners, continued its advance, it was captured by more Italian troops. The New Zealand officer with some of his men managed to break away and walked boldly back to their own lines ignoring every enemy challenge. The same South Island battalion encountered more Italians during a heavy engagement this morning. This time the Italians showed more spirit for the New Zealanders had to fight up to the barrels of their machineguns. The attitude of Italian prisoners taken during the campaign as a whole is reported to be not so much lack of morale as indifference to the outcome of the war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1941, Page 6
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