5,000 ITALIANS
SURRENDER TO AMERICANS AT MAKNASSI ACCORDING TO GERMAN REPORT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 23. The Berlin radio declared, “Tonight Field;Marshal Rommel again threw tanks into a counter-attack. The operbeing made more difficult because of the enemy’s air superiority and the steadily narrowing space for manoeuvring. “Five thousand Italians have surrendered to the Americans at Maknassi.” The British United Press correspondent with the Eighth Army, another message states, reports that 140 Italians abandoned one strongpoint on the Mareth front and were walking toward the British with their hands raised up when German artillery shelled them and German troops rushed in to defend the abandoned post. The Italians said that the British'barrage was unbearable.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 3
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