TROOPS DESERTED.
BLACK SHIRT LEADERS’ ACTION.
REGULARS LEFT TO FIGHT ON.
(Received This Day, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, January 7
A special communique isued by General Headquarters at Cairo this evening states that during operations at Bardia three. Black Shirt commanders deserted their troops, leaving the regular commanders to fight on.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 74, 8 January 1941, Page 6
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