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CROCODILES STAY !
(Rec. 1.15.) NEW YORK, May 17. A Los Angeles message said that Rear Admiral Cochrane disclosed that part of the cargo that an Axis ship carried off the African coast in the Autumn of 1942 consisted of a thousand medals destined for distribution as soon as the conquest of Egypt was completed. The medal -showed Italian and German soldiers pulling a crocodile from a river, symbolising the expulsion of the British from Egypt.
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Grey River Argus, 18 May 1944, Page 5
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75CROCODILES STAY ! Grey River Argus, 18 May 1944, Page 5
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