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25 Jan 2019 10:12 - 25 Jan 2019 10:14 #368585
by mapoui
review31.co.uk/article/view/293/party-po...s-in-the-west-indies
I had heard that the former trouble in Taranto had been caused by the men having been sent to do work of a degrading character (in one case cleaning out the latrines belonging to the Italian Labour Corps), I told the Base Commandant that on the formation of the Regiment and on enlistment the men had been promised that they should be treated as British troops … he replied that he was perfectly aware of the promise, and intended to take no notice of it: that the men were only niggers, and that no such treatment should ever have been promised to them; that they were better fed and treated than any nigger had a right to expect; that he would force them to do it.
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