THE WORKS.

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 8, 1 September 1941, Page 4

THE WORKS.

“We were capturing the Italians by thousands after the Battle of Bardia and it was rather difficult to know what to do with them, so we herded them on to a whopping big plain just a few miles away and put four Australians with Bren guns to -guard them,” writes an Australian officer. “More and more prisoners came in, the group got larger and larger and the Australians further and further apart. “That evening, ,the C.O. decided to look at them before changing the guard. First three Australians were 0.K., but when he came to the fourth, the C.O. nearly died of apoplexy. “Here was this bright lad with the gun in pieces before him, ex-. plaining to the Dagoes around him just how it worked! .Poor C. 0.” * * ♦