NOT TALKING
BRITISH PRISONERS IN AXIS HANDS. TESTIMONY OF ENEMY commanders. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright), (Received This Day, 10.55 a.iri.) LONDON, December 28. British prisoners are described as a silent service, according to a document taken from a German officer captured in the Middle East. It says: “They are proud, cautious and absolutely secure. As a prisoner, an Englishman counts on German justness and correctness and he usually behaves towards his own prisoners in a correct and > fair, manner. Experiences to the contrary should perhaps be counted as exceptions.” A captured order of the day, issued by General Navarrini, commander of the Italian Twenty-First Corps, m Libya, stated: “When subjected to questioning, all enemy prisoners firmly and categorically refused to give any military information of any kind. I wish these facts be brought to the notice of all units.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1942, Page 2
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