COMMENT IN ROME
"MERELY A DESERT ENCOUNTER"
LONDON, December 14.
While accusing British propaganda of claiming great victories quite different from the truth, the Rome radio said Britain had concentrated all her forces in that part of the world under the leadership of one of her ablest men, General Wavell. Italians were aware that they were living in the gravest hour of their history, but were convinced of a victorious end to the war.
Later the Rome radio described the defeat in North Africa as merely a desert encounter. Marshal Graziani, it said, was awaiting the British in Libya with two great armies and with fortified lines superior to those of the British.
The radio hotly refuted a report that Italy was negotiating for an armistice and also reports of revolts in Italian cities.
An Italian communique stated that frontier fighting continued m the Western Desert all yesterday. The Italian troops, it added, counterattacked in the afternoon and relieved the enemy pressure.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 145, 16 December 1940, Page 9
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