IS WERE GIVEN WITHOUT STINT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 7

IS WERE GIVEN WITHOUT STINT.

YUGOSLAV TROOPS.

Nazi Tank Losses In First

Blitz Attacks.

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,Recd - no °n.) LONDON", April 14. Reports describing how the Ger"'ans invaded Jugoslavia show that ? y ° -4 tanks from two *'biltz" 'otwins. Jugoslavia had no'orga- "•?, defence line for more than 50 Jules from the point where the rentiers of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and 'fcece meet in the Struninitza Valley. • oreover, this sector was manned by "rr* single division, the rapidity j 1 uerman moves having forestalled c concentration of troops.

•"erthdef* th« Serbians sacriliccd in I'll' 4 ® 6 without stint in an effort I , n P tanks which were rolling the valley. Two Serbian batta- , ®tood their ground with onlv four " nt '-tank guns.

lost 20 tanks in the then" fi . aiK l 24 in tlie second, but by >oiV "'Hp ' " ot through the (or m," { ' s a "d "ere clearing the way Vir/i ren,a 'nder, which reached the ®r valley anj thence Salonika.

y | c nieantinie, farther along the tolii? 11 frontier, German liuJl Hj a^vance 'l at three point*. Two Yu»ni t .? n ' <s forced the thinly-held »kn ,' lr ' s to reach Stip and Veles, £n*l further north, from Hum 1 about 300 tallks ,novpfl °n Ptriiol'T- 0 arK ' 'hence to Skolpje, where «im«H U * BtS ' lad nia< * e t' ,l? '"' st attacks. c *Mon 8 P ara '- S ' n ? Yugoslav eommuni-

)i lv hernia n communique rays: 'We 'ori»,* nn '' " le bulk of the. enemy r»mn. ® nc ' ou ntered in Yugoslavia. The •MrUr " le Sf 'rbian army on the tain. J 0 . 00 "®*- withdrew to tiie inouncfoie the Italians and Hermann"