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HILEQUAT - LIBYAN PRISONERS IN THE SERVICE OF THE ITALIANS BEING FED BY THEIR BRITISH CAPTORS AND GETTING THEIR APPARENTLY 1ST MEAL FOR DAYS. IN CONTRACT TO ITALIAN TROOPS THESE NATIVES WERE ILL CLOTHED AND BADLY ARMED. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY F. HURLEY).
NIBEIWA - THE TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF PRISONERS TAKEN DURING THE PUSH AGAINST ITALIANS CREATED THE SERIOUS PROBLEM OF FEEDING THEM. ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY WELL-FED THE ITALIANS WERE PRETTY HUNGRY AFTER THE
WESTERN DESERT - THE LIBYAN FORCES WERE THE 1ST TO BE ENCOUNTERED BY BRITISH TROOPS ON THEIR DRIVE TO ITALIAN TERRITORY & WITH THEIR OBSOLETE ARMS PROVED A PITIFUL MATCH. THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS WERE T
TUMMAR - THE ITALIANS DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND BEING PRISONERS BUT THEY DID WANT CIGARETTES BADLY. FORTUNATELY MOST OF THE BRITISH TOMMIES HAD SOUVENIRED PLENTY OF ITALIAN "FAGS" AND SO THERE WAS NO SHORTA
HILEQUAT - THE PRISONERS SEEMED TO BEAR NO ILL-FEELING TOWARDS THEIR CAPTORS AND APPEARED GENERALLY TO ACCEPT THEIR FATE WITHOUT QUALMS. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY F. HURLEY).
SOME OF LATEST BATCH OF 4000 PRISONERS FROM AREA BETWEEN BARRANI AND Buq Buq. ALL ITALIAN TROOPS WERE WELL-CLOTHED & ARMED & IN GOOD PHYSICAL CONDITION BUT SEEMED IN NO MOOD FOR FIGHTING AFTER THE FIR
WESTERN DESERT - ITALIAN PRISONERS TAKEN DURING WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN DID NOT SEEM TO REGRET THEIR CAPATIVITY & WERE APPARENTLY IN A CHEEFUL FRAME OF MIND. THEIR ONLY REGRET - THEY LEFT THEIR CIGARE
