GREATEST DISASTER
Germany Suffers At Hands Of Greek Patriots COMMUNICATIONS BROKEN Rec. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, July 18. It is now known that the successes of Greek forces in damaging enemy controlled railway communications on the night of June 20 compose the greatest single disaster Germany has suffered through the resistance of the people of any occupied country. . The demolition of an important railway bridge over Asopus Gorge at Thermopylae, was supplemented bv the destruction of three minor bridges further north on the line to Salonika. As soon as the Germans began repairing the most northerly bridge a fourth was blown up, preventing them from getting repair materials from Solonika. Thus, the only railway to Southern Greece will be out of action for some weeks, if not until "the leaves of autumn fall," Mr. Churchill's recent reference to* the invasion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 169, 19 July 1943, Page 3
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GREATEST DISASTER
Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 169, 19 July 1943, Page 3
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