Daily Post - 19.04.1941, Page 1

DAILY POST
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II—91 Satandiay, April 19, 1941 Price: 15 aurár
Allied forees in Greeee with-
draw to shorter defence line.
LONDON, APRIL lSth.
The latest news from Greece, given in
,The Iatest news from Greece, given in la
in face of increased press'nre by the Ger-
mans who are daily bringing Up reinfor-
cements, the Ailied trjops are gmdally
being withdrawn to a shorter line of de-
l'ence.
;It is stated in LondiDn thiat it ‘may be tak-
en that the siítuation in Greece is grave.
The Germans have been able to release
troops from Yug-aslavLa and increase the
pressnrc on the Greeks in Albania, ttous
threalienimg the left flank.
Reports from Atheiis state that the British
and Greek tr-oops oontinue to ho!d ba-ck
the Germans despite desperate attacks. I( is
st-ated in aiuth-orative quiarters that the de-
fence lines have nowhere been pentetratei
and Ge"mans repoi'tns hiiníimg at B s'uiccessful
penetrati-on have no f-oum-dation in faet.
Gorrespiondents im Greeoe estimate the
German laasuaities in Greece at 50,000. The
United Press reporter describes the enemy
losses as mass slauighter. Hi 11 s amd roads
are icovered wíth thelr dead.
The Germams have at ieast three ,arr
mo’ured divi'sions at the Greek fnomt and
thei!r main drive is aifcmg the two jroads
so'uth from Mount Oiynrpus. Their dive-
bombers are oonistantly in a-ct’iion, flyiimg
over in batches of 20 to 40, uhioad'iinjg
thei'i' bombs and returniing foir more. In |a
single attack an Australian unit accounted
for five of them iwiith a Breiv-gun. ^umehous
Gernian tanks have been destroyed, but
although the tank atiacks are repuised aga-
in án-d again, the infantry is sent on, reok-
íessly, and they have been mowied down
by machine-gtin fiiire.
There has been bitter fighting at other
sectors of the front and the Greeks have
been icomp'elled to evaduate Koritsa.
It mtist nowi fe ooms-iidered oertaim that
the Yugos'Iav army has oapitulated and all
organised resistanoe has oeased in Yugo-
slaviia.
Observers, who wiehe in Yugoslavia, have
relateci many inoidents wiMch show • h-ow
desprerately the Yugoslavs fought against
the heavy odds. They had no armoured
dilvdsions and their Air Foroe was sbon
sjiot out of the sky. In Belgrade ithe ob-
ser\rer saw hundreds of women and chiildren
l’yibg dead in the debris of their iformer
homes. It is estimated that more than ften
thousand people were killed in Belgrade,
a city whii'ch had been dec’.ared open (and
undefended. The observer happened to be
in Sarajevo when the Germans “bl'itzed“ that
town. It was left a heap of ruihs.
Yugoslavia will stand as a wonderful
exampíe for those who prefer to fiight rat-
her than to submi't to the agressor. The
Yugoslav people knew. what they were ih
for but yet they tíh-ose to fighi to the finislu
The Germans and the Italians are extre-
mely angry at the way their news ís dre-
ated in Switseriand. The Swáss give great
prominenoe to British new-s but igmore the
Itftlian reports of sucoesses in Albania.