45,000 BROUGHT SAFELY BACK

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13326, 1 May 1941, Page 5

45,000 BROUGHT SAFELY BACK

tv t aT FORCE NUMBERED 60,000 INCLUDING • :lG nVE AUSTRALIAN AND ONE NEW ZEALAND DIVISION

CASUALTY LIST 3,000

London, April 30 «,.nred by Mr Churchill to-day that * m orial troops had been WgS from Greece. This * e i h still be increased. :^r • number sent over was EffingS? New Zealand Division. * oSC tv list from Mount Olymregion gave of killed and wounded '•lrchiH said he had been » Cl 1! V to give the figures not Xl t,age the fears of people *V 3* the colonies but •'lisorove the fantastic claims '"• J He said that considof the enemy * .V and that only a small ;f ' e ih Air Force could cover Son, the number evacif{frema'rkable. Mr ChurjK words of the highest Kmentioning the gallant rear- * In which had been fought en th e line had never hrnken The Dominions had J TeVo"d of. Most of the lit had been brought away 5 some heavy material had to '';■[ behind. 0* Decision to Leave Greece v- Eden, Foreign Secretary, gave &m of what led up to the de- ;,; to evacuate Imperial Forces 2 Greece. Re decision came following a »Irom the Greek Prime Minister g, was handed to the British alp Minister in Athens. ;• MS stated in this note that ■ Greek forces having already con•s& a six months' war against an. ay superior in numbers and Anient, were now exhausted, and it certain resources. It was •:>fore only too apparent that the <tk Army could not continue the jjgle with any hope of success, rtralarly with regard to'the ,ex- -:: of the front and the superiority ian and equipment of the new :;a;. Any further sacrifice of ;i'h Imperial troops would be in u and a withdrawal would be the Kttr plan for the continuance of Slight for freedom. Mr Eden said that the note show- : '.fcat the British withdrawal was rtd out with the full knowledge :i approval of the Greek Govrn-