NEW GERMAN LINE
Withdrawal In Greece LONDON, August 16., The Germans are withdrawing their main defences in Greece and are going right back to the Olympus line, where our men fought a heroic action in 1941, says the “Daily Telegraph’s” Istanbul correspondent. The Germans’ new line, at the eastern end, protects the Aegean base of Salonika and the plain of Salonika. The line from Olympus is believed to run through the town of Servia, across the heights to Janina, and thence to the Adriatic narrows. By this withdrawal the Germans economize in troops without fundamentally changing the strategic picture in the Aegean Sea, Turkey, and the southern approaches to Bulgaria. There are indications that the Germans are strengthening the defences of the Dodecanese, which they intend to hold to the last.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 276, 18 August 1944, Page 5
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