SALONIKA STREETS WERE DESERTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)

SALONIKA STREETS WERE DESERTED.

AS GERMANS ENTER.

Improvised "Home Guard"

Harries Advance. United Tress Association. —A'oprright. (Reed, fi p.in.) J/OXDOX. April 11. The tiermans mavehed into Salonika iliroiiL'li tlc?erte<l streets. Every door was barred, every blind drawn, a sipn of protest from the 1.000.000 inhabitants out off here and in the. rest of Tliraec from the remainder of C.reece. Almost all men had previously left. The city's military Governor, durinpr the last hours of freedom, plastered walls with notices calling on all ablebodied men to take up arms. When modern rifles ran out, old models were issued. Lall-comers received revolvers and swords.

This improvised ''Home Guard marched out and lutrriod the Pan/er divisions cumins down the ardar \ allow

After the. departure of the men. the women <lu?r shelters and did anything necessary 10 improve the city's, defences but the rumble of guns came nearer, whereupon the women shut themselves in their houses.

Refugees from Thrace and Macedonia began to pour in. guards combing newcomers for German agents. The worst sufferers of the occupation will be .">O.OOO Jews. Fifth columnists have already told theni that they will be uprooted from their homes.