ATTACK BY THE YORKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 5

ATTACK BY THE YORKS

ITALIANS SURRENDER

&UGBY,: October \3l

An attack in the. dark by. a, Yorkshire regiment of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division is described by a cor-^ .respondent with the Eighth, A^mX- A battalion' of the regiment crossed a* live minefield-and moved up to the* assault against heavy small^m^. flr«' and anti-tank • gufts;: filing 6yei*: "open" sights. Breri-carriers followed after* the sap^rsliabdi the mine's!; ""The companies" went* straight "in, and soon ran into many" machine-guns,. . - ; , The first job was to, wipe thena' out,'* and they had to fight every inch-'of the* way to do it. One platoon wip,ed out^i a, triple-gun* -r^est with hand;grenadesr and tommy-guns.- and;others stormedfe posts with the" bayonet - Ifhsn: they^ prepared tor' a * qpuriler-attaclc, y/hichv came immediately, anct was- smashed.* One .compa^; Jerrymander captured! 50 Italians by st'oppirif* nis rhacnine-* ■gun firing and inviting the enemy ta''surrender. .The Italians were in a" strong position, but the Yorkshiremen ' had got round to their rear, and after Bren carriers had broken their resist-! ance the Italians decided to pull out/-; so the captain, preyed t&e cease fire. Elsewhes.'e, at the-height-of-' the at-/ tack, an Italian white flag moyed over, a ridge towards the Yorkshire regiment and, in broken English, a voice called,: "No support. No food. Officer* drink all water. So tye surrender."—* B,aw. •