Word: bardia
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...After Bardia's fall, Archie Wavell demonstrated a talent which is in the greatest British tradition-his knack for and knowledge of literature. He has written two good books, and is a constant reader of authors ranging from Browning to Wodehouse. When the Kipling Society of London quoted Kipling to congratulate him on taking Bardia, he cabled back immediately another reference from the same story. As his troops pushed on, other Wavell traits came out: his genius for cooperation, indicated by the way his men worked with R. A. F. and Navy; his complete confidence in subordinates like Major...
...have for 30 years suffered from the cruelty of Italian rule . . . have at last seen their oppressors in disorderly flight or led off in endless droves as prisoners of war." Last week, near the white walls, bright cupolas and date palms of Giarabub Fort, 150 miles south of Bardia, and the last East Libyan post still being held by the Italians, a great crowd of Moslems waited to make a triumphal entry when the Australian troops should take the fort. These were the vanguard of 3,000,000 Moslems of the Senussi sect. Their leader, Seyyid Idris el Senussi...
...Sidi Barrani. Salum, Bardia. Tobruch and Derna fell, the fleet immediately used the larger ports to supply the advancing Army, and to drain the area of its flood of prisoners. The efficient way the fleet did this job, contrasted with the crumbling of Italian communications, accounted in large measure for the speed of the campaign...
...British hurried the weary process of rounding up and counting prisoners. About 20,000 were taken, including General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, the little general of tremendous appetite and temper whom the British thought they had at Bardia, but who escaped by motorboat. Recalling the old saw about the British being a nation of shopkeepers, an enthusiastic BBC announcer telling of the Bengasi victory' exclaimed: "The British are rapidly becoming a nation of wop-keepers...
...Bengasi out before German serial assistance should become really effective. The presence of German planes in Sicily and Libya had effected the whole Mediterranean situation. Late in the week German planes bombed the entire British-held section of the North-Libyan cost, claiming a 10,000-ton ship at Bardia, three other sunk and three damaged elsewhere. This week the British admitted that one ship had been bombed, but said that a "large number" of Italian prisoners aboard her had been killed. Despite this new element, the British were confident that if they could reach Bengasi soon enough, they could...