Sunburned Captain Eric Strologo of His Majesty's Royal Artillery parked his truck in front of British headquarters and went inside. When he returned he found a young Maltese searching the truck for loot. He marched the boy off to the Military Police. They told him it was clearly a case for Maltese civil police. At police headquarters the boy was released, Strologo clapped in jail for unauthorized arrest of a Maltese citizen. That was July 14, 1943. Captain Strologo is still in jail.
Vainly the regimental colonel protested to Maltese authorities. He went to Britain's Military Governor, General the Viscount...
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