Sunday Post - 03.11.1940, Qupperneq 1

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Greek troops advance.
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Italian bombers raid 15 villages in Greece.
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London, Nov. 2nd.
The Greek communique issued this morning confirmed
reports of a Greek advance of 3% miles into Albanian terri-
tory. The news of this success is all the more heartening
as it indicates that the Greeks still hold the vital northern
parts of the country where the enemy has tried to advance
towards Phlorina.
FIGHTERS WITH THE BRITISH FLEET.
A formation of Blackburn Roc aircraft, twoseater fighters of
the British Fleet’s Air Arm. Of all-metal construction, they
carry formidable power-operated gun turrets.
Berlin hard hit.
According to reports from
Athens, the Greek troops met
with a strong resistance. The fa
aious “kilted” troops led the at-
tack and succeeded in captur-
lng a 'strategically important
fountain within the Albanian
frontier. Nine Italian officers
and 150 soldiers were taken pri
soner. The Greeks also captur-
ed 153 mules.
The unsignificant progress
made by the Italians along the
c°ast is of no importacne what-
ever. The rest of the fighting
seems to be taking place at the
middle of the front where the
Greek troops have received big
BARRAGE BALLOONS AT
LARGE.
During the last few days
several barrage balloons
have drifted in over Ice-
land, wrecking telephone
lines in various parts of
the country. In some
places the farmers have
managed to capture these
unwelcome guests before
they had done any dam-
age.
Balloon hunting is said
to have become a very
Popular from of recrea-
tion in those parts of the
country.
news in brief.
London, Nov. 2nd.
Crowd in Athens cheered to-
day when they saw a British
Plane fly over the city just
when an air raid alarm was
sounded. The plane was a Sun-
derland-boat whose pilot had
keen interned in Greece.
reinforcements. Greek planes
have bombed the Italian head-
quarters at an Albanian town
and raided troops concentra-
tions.
It is supposed in London that
the Greeks are preparing for an
offensive.
This morning Italian planes
again raided Salonika, Patras
and Korinth. The raiders con-
centrated on the civil popula-
tion and the casualties are said
to be very high, especially in
Salonika. Yesterday Italian
planes bombed and machine-
gunned 15 Greek villages.
2442 German plan-
es destroyed since
Aug. 8.
i LONDON, Nov. 2nd.
The Air Ministry news service
has stated that during the last
twelve weeks, or since air raids
on England began, 2442 German
bombers and fighters have been
brought down over England by
British fighters and the ground
defences. Over 6,000 German air-
men have been killed or taken
prisoner. A striking feature of
the German losses is that they
have lost 3 aircraft and 14 air-
men to every one of the British.
The most severe blow to the
Germans is their loss of trained'
airmen.
The Use of Junkers bombers
has been gradually abandoned as
the Germans gave Up daylight
raids which proved too costly
for them. Now German daylight
bombers are few and far bet-
ween. They have increased their
fighter escort to 4 to one.
London, Nov. 2nd.
A communique issued by the
Air Ministry this afternoon
states that bombers of the R.
A. F. last night carried out one
of the heaviest and most con-
centrated raid Berlin has ever
experienced.
There were actually two
raids. Shortly after 8 p.m. the
first raiders reached the city
and continued their attack for
2 hours. Several of the main
railway stations and adjoining
goods yards were successfully
bombed. Nearly four hours
after the first raid was over
the first bombers of the second
wave arrived and for the next
40 minutes the city was shaken
by explosions. The main elec-
tric power station was hit and
set on fire. Pilots said that they
had seen the fire 150 miles
away when on their homeward
journey. Thousands of persons
were caught away from their
homes when the raid began.
While Berlin was bombed
other British planes visited se-
veral other places in Germany,
among them synthetic oil
plants at Magdeburg, railway
junctions at Osnabruck and
blast furnaces in Essen.
Other bombers raided 15
aerodromes in German occu-
pied territory. From these
widespread operations only
two British aircraft failed to
return.
Nine Nazis Down.
- LONDON, Nov. 2nd.
Since dawn to-day strong for-
ces of enemy fighters and fighter-
bombers have tried to reach
London. The first attack was rep-
ulsed by British fighters and
ground defences, but the second
was on a much larger scale, and
then a few enemy planes reached
London.
Nine enemy planes have been
destroyed in air battles over
Bri ain to-day.