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Show Rome Radio Sees Libyan Losses As Passing Phase of War ROME, Jan. 6 UP) With still no official mention of the fate of Bardia, Italian propaganda insisted that losses In the Libyan desert battle In North Africa were only a passing pha.se of the war. Tha Rome radio declared that happenings at Bardia "have not al- teriKl the military situation In the ! least degree." (The Rrltlsh reported the capture cap-ture of nardia Sundny, along with six more Italian generals and .K,-000 .K,-000 troops.) "The Italian army is Intact," the radio said. "Wavell'a army (Gen-i (Gen-i eral Sir Archibald P. Wavell. com-i com-i mander in chief of the British army of the Nile) Is far from Its bases and faces the same situation as the British aald the Italians did at SMI Barranl." This was a reference to the Italian Ital-ian advance base, 75 miles Inside Egypt, which the British captured at the start of their counter-offensive counter-offensive nearly a month ago. In an English broadcast, the fascist radio quoted report from Turkey and Germany to Indicate Ihnt the Kalians were outnumbered, outnum-bered, hut not outfought. The Turkish report asserted that the Italian stronghold at Bardia had to yield to 800 British tanks and 400,000 men. |