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1942 ABYSSINIA / DEFENCE: World War 2: Italian troops surrender
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3:48Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1942
Location: ABYSSINIA
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
ABYSSINIA (ETHIOPIA):
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Line of native troops with rifles and bayonets pan to officers inspecting / British officers towards / Officers stop, and salute / Italian officer walking and saluting flag / Italian and British officers towards past troops / Line of Italians
Man carrying Italian flag past officers / Line of troops / Soldier holding flag with 2 Colonial troops, one on each side of him / Line of Italians ? marching / Colonial troops towards with band in front and rifles over shoulders / Colonial troops entering town
Italian soldier with whiskers / More Italian soldiers / Italian officer leading man/ More Italians / Men standing about by lorries / Colonial troops / Troops marching carrying luggage and putting luggage on ground / GVs luggage, Rifles and Fields guns / Colonial troops filling box of ammunition / Natives with piles of cartridges
GVs Machine guns / Lorries and men standing round them / Men walking round lorries with luggage / Men standing by lorries/ Men on lorry / GV men walking across country / Men sitting by water / Men across on raft / Raft with lorry on it, lorry into water and lorry being pulled across river / Tractor / Lorry onto bank of river / Lorry through river / Lorry stuck in mud and men pushing lorry / Italians and Native troops, one with studs in face.
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