Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1941 — Page 4

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British Navy Gives Trinoli Biggest Bombardment Of War,

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—and presumably little more Athens—that the Brave: y of the Alfed soldiers would Be sufficient vo overcome the verrific odds against which they are battling Tondon declined any on Persistent German fvacuation of British troops from the Greek theater underway However, the move would appear to be only Yogtcal in view of the swift rush of the battle voward its ap parently evitable end. The Ger man official news agency claimed that i Bad sunk 23000 tons of transports loaded with Britieh TOPs leaving Greece. The British coun-

comment reports that

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tered with the claim of having torpedoed exactly the same tonnage of Supply ships carrying munitions to the Nagzis in the Balkans

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Three Divisions ia Action

Germany was said to have thrown | effective elements of three armored | divisions into the battle on the east- | ern Greek sector. These divisions, outhumbering and outgunning the lied defense forces, have cracked through the Othiys Mountain line, | possibly the best defense position | which had remained between the! Germans thd Athens. After orossing these mountains, the Nazis dashed inte Lamia 110 miles worth of Athens and pushed | on te possibly the final fixed de-| fense line in Greece-a line anchiored near the three-mile wide gap of Thermopylae where 2421 vears! ago the Spartan king Leonidas and 3000 gallant men fought te the death to hold the narrow gap against the Persians under Xerxes. At that time the Thermopylae | Pass was only 50 feet wide. Erosion. | working slowly through the centurfos. has broadened it to three miles! and has cut down the steep walls) which once made a natural defensive position of some strength All along the Greek Mont Gere Man pressive was proving too strong for the imferior Allied forces

Athens Suburbs Bombed

The Nazi troops which broke! though Nretsove Pass in the north- | ern Pindus range pressed on to Janina to the southwest ang were believed to have cut off the line of retreat of large numbers of Greek Hoops moving back from Albania The Gemans sent their aivebombers in large numbers all the WAY up to the outskirts of Athens today. The Nazi aircraft were blast. ing at the lines 6f military men fall ol ng back on the Greek capital } The attacks in the Athens ayes were almost continvous and the Greeks finally gave up sounding air, raid warning sirens. The Germans did not, however, attack Athens prope: Thic great Nazi air activity in the Athens region was thought to be designed te demoralize the eivilian population

Axics Race Bombarded

Aile the Riritish fought to Stay defensive in Greece he in Keeping with its of carrying the [ght the launched a terrific bombard-

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Apparently the feet up close to Tripoli under cover of qa) Kkness Ax dawn was breaking the big guns roared and feet ah craft took off to spot their shell DURE: and add to the attacks weight by dropping many bombs The Admiraltvyx report on the bombardment aid that the bom bardment had been extremely Qeshivtetive and may seriously impede | the supply and reinforcement of the German African columns for some time The British reported that six the Tripoli harbor and a destroyer were known to have deen it. On the land an oil depoi the railtoad station, docks, naval headquarters, the power station and military depot were reported heavily damaged Rome admitted that the Tripoli attack had occurred but made no mention of damage The British believed and belief was shared hy many other European capitals—that action se far has been only a eurtain<raiser

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on Hitlers Spring offensive

Turkey Thinks It Ie Next

They looked for action in Spain directed toward closing the Gibraltar Strajts and possibly a move mgd Portugal. The Portugese Government was reported to have made preparations to flee to the Asores should that be necessary, France appeared to be confronted with the new German demands for co-operation in the next phase of ihe spring offensive. There wag no indication how Vichy would react Turkey was convinced it had been singled out for the next German attack and thought the only events

| which might save it were a German

break-through across Egypt to the a Nazi attack oh Russia I connection with Russia there was interest in the troubles which have broken out within Germany's new order between Hungary and Rumania. Budapest claimed that | Russia may be stirring up the

| Rumanians to make impossible de-

mands of Hungary and there were that Germany might [switch her support from Gen. Ton | Antonescu to Moria Sima. exiled Iron Guard leader

PRESIDENT PROMISES TO VISIT IN CANADA

OTTAWA, April 22 (U0 PP). and Mrs Roosevelt will Visit here this summer as guests of the Ear] of Athlone, Prime Minister | W. L. Mackenzie King announced. | He sald Mr, Roosevelt hopes to i make the visit between May 10 and 13 and see Parliament in session but “definitely promised” to make the trip before the end of summer King. who returned yesterday | from conferences with the Presi. | dent at Hyde Park, N.Y, ealled the | hew program under which the United States and Canada will eo. {ordinate production to aid Britain | “the real answer to Hitler's birth. day celebration”

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Africa without expecting te follow | thiough with large quantities of supplies and additional troops. The way 16 do 0 might have been opened if the fAghting in Greece | had developed into a disorganized | retreat, with the British trying to escape under conditions similar to | Dunkirk. to strike at Tripoli scarcely indi! The British Mediterranean Fleet | cates a precarious situation. en uid Pave Lad I Tonceniase rey y 8, en=| oe Wiieasingte has been shown | geavoring to keep the Germans at, Floor | y lest the Mediterranean bay along the embarking coast. [ Fleet would be unable to pay proper = »/ i

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attention to arriving German troops and supplies at Tripoli until after the Greek campaign had ended or | the front in Greece had been stabil= | ized. The bombardment of the chief | Libyan port of entry indicates, how= ever, that the British have the siivation in the Fastern and Middle [Mediterranean under better control {than had been anticipated. As long as the British Navy ean subject Tripoli to unexpected boms= bardment at intervals reinforeing the Germans in Libya will be sevi= ously impeded, quite apart from attacks at sea on transporis en route (to the port | The situation of the German di- | visions now in North Africa must be | regarded with uneasiness in Berlin. | since the British have demons strated an apparent ability to use | their fleet for double duty in Greek and Tripolitanian waters It is reasonable to believe that Hitler had expected the Briuish to be 50 ex-| elusively occupied with evacuations | Irom the Greek campaign that he feould transport reinforcements to Libya comparatively free from naval molestation 1 scarcely credible that the i German General Staff would have| sent only a few divisions inte North

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This map shows the sitvation of the British in Greece as military experts speculate wh command of the sea will permit the taking of Allied troops to Crete or Alexandria or whe bombers will prevent such a waneuver if the Nazis win the Battle of Greece

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great dislocation and inevitably provokes large-seale bombing from youth organization)ine air. The British, howeve: have profited by their experiences which in Belgium and France and thes way ran control Nont-line traffic now In a; “Ac soon manner that would do credit to the pug in a traffic policemen handling huge Hom a streams of automobiles at Times Pyitzies Square in New York or Picadilly “There were in London. left We f saw one stick of delayed-action machine bombs hit a roadway and dig a big While tank crater. Ten minutes later sappers Panze sion were hard at work patching up through to ow the hole while “ted cap” motor-| Our machi evele police directed traffic through Yank by-pass tering Crouching on the Hye of a swollen river yesterday 1 Dit met three Australians who haq been in the thick of the fAghting around Mt Olympus, and had just arrived, footsore, hungry and sleepy aka We at the newly established line he sai ' i jfeave the m “For four dave and nights we later. hit th walked and fought on and around Tih. : that mountain, often in six inches oD A when of Show one said Once Weivak a hig reached the peak, climbing like nothing moved from mountain goats, to act ag rea guard aA New Zealander for the withdrawal of ow Main | who had fought ‘} body of troops When the order) aid. “We opened up came for wus withdraw we gol/ an tanks at a miles from Greek peasants, loaded and knocked them them with anti-tank guns and other ' another equipment, and set out. When yyoops tried thirsty we eat snow! when ex-/eaught them hausted we slept on the show (or | and artillem an hour or two and continued on in ‘waist-deep water u our way, One night we had only yan red with blood 10 minutes rest | The British Imperia Phe Australians’ narrative was) tor. however, when interrupted several times by passing | gineers bombers, Frequently we had to bus

blasted a p tanks through a railw our faces in the red rive mua ag British engineers hag

(Continved from Page One) Another the A heen sent 16 reinforce the main

from the Hitles that they had been withdrawn]

and reinforcements from Jugosiavia hae taken over the spearhead of the offensive I watched lines of tin-hatted Australians, New Zealanders and British Tommies stream along the roligh mountain roads and long, ineluding big guns, crawl] snake-like through the passes while German planes roared over in methodical attacks On every Alp-like path, the convoys reached as far as I could see thiowing up dust that covered the troops with grevish powder The British, Australian and New Zealand troops here have fought a desperate retreat, some of them all the way down from the Jugosiay border, I met a youth from Rirmingham, England. who had been in action with a sappers unit, doing demolition work He was eight miles from the Jugosiavy border when the Germans attacked. He said, “I'm an orhamental plasterer in peace time but now I'm doing just the opposite king of work— blowing up roads, bridges, railways

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