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OVER 180,000 ITALIAN PRISONERS

THE CURTAIN SHIELDING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BRITISH ARMY, WHICH CONTINUES TO BREAK RECORDS, WAS, LIFTED ·· FURTHER YESTERDAY BY LORD CROFT, UNDER-SECRETARY FOR WAR, IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Lord Croft had a special word for the HIS "SAFE"

Home Guard, "probably the least expensive

fighting force in history," which frees the SHELTER HIT

mobile army to strike wherever necessary, from Lofoten to Jijiga.

"You and baby can come home now. I have Without the Home Guard, military com- found a safe shelter," manders could not have risked sending vital wrote a London husband reinforcements in men and weapons to smash to his young wife evacuat- the Italian army in Africa in the nick of time. ed to the country.

• Lord Croft then made a new disclosure regarding the African campaigns.

Despite the peril of invasion we parted with fine troops and first class equipment to meet the menace in Egypt and our vital communications with the East.

It was the longest distance evar covered by an army in history to reach a major thea -

tre

of waran Immenge naval

and military undertaking in

submarine-infested oceans, To-day it was permissable to mention that we had placed in safe custody in our prison camps a (ur larger number of the enemy than all the forces at General Wavell's disposal in the sombre month of last June.

Successive Onslaughts

With a speed never equalled, with endurance surely remark able, with perfection of timing, Eurprise, initiative and a

cres- cendo of pace, the Army won a glorious succession of vic torics which heartens every free man and gives him faith in morale over numbers and in the superiority of British fight ing men over our enemies. Regarding events in the great | series of offensives against the Italian East African Empire, Lord. Croft emphasised

the immense distances involved and said:

A Vast Clock

"Imagine a miles in circumference, with the vast clock of 4,300

centre 200 miles south-east of Ad- dis Ababa, with lightning blows from 11, 9, 8, 7. 6. 5, 4, and last week, 2 o'clock."

She returned, and one Saturday night for the first lime, he took them to his chosen refuge-the

block of offices, basenient of a

That night the building was bombed, and searchers abandoned hope for the people trapped, who fncluded the mother and baby.

The shelter was described as one of the best equipped in the borough." Nine people were res. cued on the Sunday, but the majority, including sales

managers of the firm and

from people poor jacent block of trapped under concrete.

an ad- tenements, were great chunks of

Saved By His Thirst

One man employed by the firm had spent every night at the shel- ter since the heavy London raids Lord Croft described in graphic detail successive British

began. On that Saturday night he After a description of operations went to visit on-

his mother in the slaughts along the Libyan coast, in Eritrea, culminating in the oc- East End, delivered at incredible speedcupation of the strategically ini- against a well-equipped and well-portant town of Neghelli, Lord entrenched army with every mo- dern weapon of defence, until the climax early in February when the Army of the Nile, 600 miles from its base, pinched out Ben- ghazi and blocked the retreat of all the remaining enemy..

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Croft said;

Another employee, who was on fire duty, said: "If my thirst had "It was worth a marquisate to held out for half a minute longer,' Graziani and we congratulate I would nut be here now. I went ourselves on its capture." Further to the east a dramatic and as I entered the public house down the road for a glass of beer, offensive was initiated by troops heard the crash of the bombs of Nigeria, the Gold Coast, the

King's African Rifles and the Un-on our building.” ion of South Africa under Gener-

Some bodies were brought. al Cunningham, who was start- out from the ruins of ing with high velocity from The Indian Ocean and seemed anxious day night's raid.

the London subway hit in Satur-.

Search is con- to spend Easter with his famous tinuing amid the tons of masonry. brother, the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean.

Nothing recognisable remains of the subway, apart from the geuer- al outline. Within the crater was a tangle of boulders, slabs of This column, having swept roadway weighing up to half a right through Italian Somaliland, ton, and wrecked steelwork. was now 300 miles over the Abys- From above a hundred Royal sinian border and rapidly ap- Engineers, Pioneers and demoli- proaching Harrar and threatening tion workers in the crater looked the Djibouti railway.

as if they were pigmies.

Approaching Harrar

Its advance of 770 miles from the Kenya frontier and 1,100 miles from railhead must surely be a world, record of distance in such astonishing time.

With great rapidity and at al- most no expense in casualties, forces of the Indian Army оп one flank, and Somalis and Araba on the other, recaptured the capital of British Somaliland after a surprise amphibious at- tack.

DIED AFTER

SOMERSAULT

While she was doing somersaults on a mattress. a woman got a

Whereas six weeks ago British needle in her leg. Blood-poison-

and Italian Somaliland were Italian, to-day this great area all British,

Only 604 Killed

alling followed and she died;

is Frederick Scott Malcolm stated at the inquest at Hammersmith that his wife, who was twenty-one, was a former hos- pital nurse. · ·

Our casualties in all the African fighting were surprisingly small, totalling up to February 23. 2,966; of which happily only 004 were killed, whilst we inflicted over 200,000 casualties on the enemy, including the capture of 180,000 prisoners.

These campaigns had

Her favourite pastime was to do physical jerks in front of the fire.

Head Over Heels

of January 2, Holland Road, her got into

On the evening at their home. in Kensington, she truly Imperial, and troops of pyjamas and did "head over heels" Australia, New Zealand, South on a mattress.

boan

Africa, Rhodesia, the African "I said to her, 'Can you do it. colonies and the Sudan, with backwards,'" said Mr. Malcolm, Britich Guardsmen and Infan- | "and 'she did.”... try.

His wife then told him, “There Dutch, Welsh, many Irish and is a needle on the floor," and also fine divisions from India gave a start. It was then that have, with the Royal Armoured Mr. Malcolm. thought that she'. Corps, the Royal Artillery and the drove the needle into her leg. He Engineers, written great fresh could feel it under the skin, chapters in British military his- The needle was. removed in. tory,

hospital.

dict.

Nightmare Of Italy

Egypt has been saved, the Suez Canal will not be Italiah, 'another 600 miles of the shores of the “Ita- lian lakes" have passed into Eli- tish hands.

Accidental death' was the 'ver-

Italy:

The soldiers of the, British Em- pire now stand braced, hardoned, The Italian hold on Abyssinia experienced and trained to. 'meet le becoming Increasingly pre- the might of Germany. We are carlous and Mussolini's dreams not afraid of the issue. (Cheers), have become the nightmare of -Reuter,