STRONG POSITION
TAKEN BY BRITISH TROOPS IN MADAGASCAR UROWING HAUL OF PRISONERS. GOOD PROGRESS IN ADVANCE TO SOUTH. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 20. A communique from East African headquarters says: “Early yesterday our forces advancing southward from Ambositra, on the road to Fianarantsoa, outflanked, attacked and within three hours overwhelmed a considerable Vichy force holding strong positions at the Ivato crossroads. We took 50 prisoners, including Colonel Motras, commander of the First Mixed Malagasy Regiment. Losses have been reported on our side. One of Colonel Motras’s battalion commanders, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Pensereau, had previously fallen into our hands. The total number of prisoners taken during the operations around Ambositra now exceeds 800, with two guns, a large number of mortars and heavy machine-guns. Our _ troops are well southward of Ambositra and are dealing the road of the usual obstructions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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143STRONG POSITION Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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