COMPLETE FAILURE
ITALIANS’ HEAVY LOSSES THREE DIVISIONS DECIMATED MUSSOLINI AT FRONT < omclal Wireless) (Received March 14, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, March 13 Press reports state that the Italian offensive against the Greeks ended in complete failure. Three Italian divisions were decimated. Since yesterday afternoon the enemy has attempted no further assaults. During six days’ fighting the Italian losses are estimated at more than 10,000 including at least 2000 dead and 3500 prisoners, including sixty officers. Fifty officers have been killed and over 250 wounded. Prisoners continue to assert that Mussolini has been at the front and probably is still somewhere in Albania trying to rally his army. Two days ago he was reported as being in the Tepelini area, where he lunched with General Rossi, divisional commander.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21370, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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126COMPLETE FAILURE Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21370, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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