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Further German Toll PORTS BOMBED IN GREECE
(Received April 26,12.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 25.
Athens radio stated that German aircraft bombed Piraeus and other ports in southern Greece yesterday, setting fire to the Hellas and killing and injuring many passengers, mostly women and children, travelling to various islands. Two Greek hospitalships, the Polikros and Andros, were also bombed and sunk. Some of the crew of the Andros were killed. Both ships were clearly marked with the Red Cross. The “Daily Telegraph,” commenting on a German communique which referred to the conflict “at the historic pass of Thermopylae,” says: “But the history of tyrants who go that way, however they go, is not encouraging to Hitler.”
[ln ancient times the Spartans made an heroic stand in the pass against the invading Persian army, which was finally defeated.]
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 179, 26 April 1941, Page 12
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