THE GREEKS POSH ON

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1940, Page 8

THE GREEKS POSH ON

: HEAVY AIR RAIDS

TOWNS IN ENEMY REAR

AURWAL OF BRITISH

FORCES

LONDON, November 25. Reports indicate that the Greeks, j Kaving taken Koritza, have now pushed on nearly 30 miles beyond that town. A Reuter message from Athens says that the Greeks are believed to be right up to a point 25 miles north of Koritza on the road to the Albanian coast. British and Greek planes have been bombing the Italians heavily. In their advance the Greeks are using tanks, cars, and motor-cycles abandoned by the Italians. The town of Elbasan has been heavily bombed by the Royal Air Force, and bo doubt it will be kept under increasing bombardment from the air until the Greeks reach it. This town if at the junction of two main roads leading to Durazzo, where most of the 1 Italian troops sent to invade Greece disembarked. Durazzo and Valona Itave also been heavily raided. Moskopolis, the capture of which by the Greeks was reported earlier, was legarded as one of the centres where 3he Italians might possibly have made a stand. In the Koritza region large numbers of Italians have been rounded wp One entire Italian division has been broken up in disorder, and according to other reports from Koritza three further battalions have been scattered and are being chased by Cavalry- . ' ' «, ' The occupation of Komspolis, on the road to Argyrokastron, which bars the ■way to the Albanian port of Valona, is confirmed; One correspondent has . seen rows of abandoned tanks and armoured vehicles. Other correspondents speak of wrecked Italian air bases in Albania littered with the debris of destroyed planes. The British and Greek Air Forces toe increasing the pressure. A correspondent at Athens describes the arrival in a Greek harbour some days ago of a number of famous British warships with their decks packed with British, Australian, and New Zealand troops and airmen, while thousands of Greeks on the hills above cheered themselves hoarse. During the entire voyage they never even saw a. hostile plane or vessel. Germany tonight gave her first open intimation .that she was contemplating giving assistance to Italy in the war against Greece. The official organ of the German Foreign Office warned the Gteek Prime Minister, General Metaxas, that his declaration that Greece was fighting for other small States was extremely daring and dangerous and liable to extend the war. According to the correspondent of a Swiss newspaper, Germany is also anxious for Yugoslavia to join the Axis. ■ \ Turkey's preparatidns to resist any German move have been noted in Berlin, which has not made any comment. -"The Yugoslav Press reaffirms the danger to. Yugoslavia's integrity and there is g*eafcMdignationiat;:the_ action c£ Bulgaria in, raising claims on Yugoslavia and Macedonia.