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FIVE ITALIAN GENERALS CAPTURED LONDON, December 13. Latest reports from Cairo state that all the supplies of food and oil accumulated for the proposed Italian drive on Egypt are now iii British hands. Two more stalian generals commanding divisions have been captured, bringing the total to five.
AUSTRALIANS CALLED TO FORCES CANBERRA, December 13. Tire Prime Minister of Australia tMr R. G. Menzies) announced the call-up of additional age classes for training in the citizen forces. The new age groups are' unmarried men or widowers without children who
attained the ages of 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, and 33 during the year ended on June 30,1940. The men in these groups will be re-
quired to enlist in January, 1941. Mr Menzies said the aim was the maintenance in Australia of a defence force of 250,000 men. REBELS IN ITALIAN EAST AFRICA LONDON, December 13. Reports reaching London today indicate that rebel activity is increasing in Italian East Africa, which includes Abyssinia.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23203, 14 December 1940, Page 1
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