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flight, fought to ;i finish. The Italian prisoners, akhough 

 they had a rough lime of it, were not unkindly treated, 

 the somewliat novel Hne being followed, that, if a 

 prisoner complained with good reason of the man Ik; 

 was billeted on, the latter was punished. 



It was an hour after dark before I made my way 

 back to camp in a drizzling rain. 



