How Egyptian villagers had started a brisk trade with New Zealand troops in splinters supposed to have come from Italian bombs which. fell near the soldiers’ camp, is described in a letter from a Dominion soldier. It was the troops’ first bombing experience, but the only damage was to the adjacent village. The soldier states that “local inhabitants, having suffered casualties, both human and donkey, probably felt justified in disposing of .imitation'; splinters,, which rumour claimed iwere being rapidly turned out in a Cairo factory.. We estimated that sufficient to make up ten bomber loads were bought by our men, and these are probably now back in New Zealand as proofs of the narrow shaves experienced by the senders.” -.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 December 1940, Page 7
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