DOMINION TROOPS
NO MAJOR ENCOUNTER INCOMPLETE DIVISION MR FRASER’S STATEMENT [United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. The reason that New Zealand troops had not been in a major encounter in North Africa was explained by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, yesterday. He said that till such time as our division was complete in Egypt it would be military suicide for our men to go everywhere. Major-General Freyberg was not the type of man to do anything of that kind, and no man had been more active in getting together and training , men who were scattered in many parts of the world.
“When the forces are reunited I do not know what is going to happen,” Mr Fraser said. “There will probably be the grim reality of war probably more serious than in the Libyan desert, but we know that what men can do, our men will do.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 13 February 1941, Page 4
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