IN WESTERN DESERT
OPERATIONS EXTENDED ITALIAN PRISONERS TOTAL OF ONE THOUSAND
(United Press Association —Copyright! (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m. ) LONDON. December 9. * A special communique issued at Cairo states that operations in the Western Desert are extending satisfactorily, rive hundred prisoners have already been captured in one area alone, while more are being rounded up. The General Officer Commanding one of the Italian forces engaged was killed, and the second in command was captured. The latest report states that the British have taken 1000 Italian prisoners.— British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 51, 10 December 1940, Page 5
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