Disappointment for Troops
“If we could get ’em we would try n Bren gun on ’em.” A New Zealander serving in Egypt wrote those angry words, and ho was not referring lo Italians. They were meant for the person of persons that had rifled a large number of parcels that had been sent from friends and relatives in New Zealand. In a letter to his father, this man expressed the disappointment felt by many of the troops on opening the parcels to find them as empty as the desert air. He said that an examination showed that only the top layers in a number of crates were intact, all other parcels in lower layers having been opened, rifled and placed back in the crates.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 5
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