The Archive · 1941

Captured Generals Arrive Cairo, Feb, 11

General Hannibal Bergonzoli, Tale ian commander at Bardia, and six other generals arrived yesterday from Solueh aboard a" British bomber.

Gen, Bergonzoli_was rushed to a hospital, believed suffering from op-Pendicitis brought on by an almost foodless walk of five days and nights, When he escaped from Bardia. to-Wards Tobrule through the "British ines, The Italian commander way ported to have fled from the Italian-held outpost when it was under heavy fre by the British prior to its capture, He eventually was taken into custody by the Briush,—United Press,

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