THE BRITISH FIRE
FEAR OF DOMINIONS TROOPS
(British Official Wireicsa.)
RUGBY, April 19
While German and Italian officials show anger at the unexpected resistance by the Greeks before overwhelming forces, they are broadcasting that the British are not fighting and are packing up. However, the prisoners captured by the British hold a different view, and many who fought in Poland, the Low Countries, and France admit that the British artillery and machine-gun fire is deadlier than anything they met before. They also said that the Dominions troops put the greatest fear into them.
Detachments of Anzacs in the Ssrvia region who were surrounded by German irtfantry. killed 300 and captured 150 in 15 minutes'.
These prisoners were mostly Viennese. They said they did not want to fight the British and had objected to being called up. "The Germans paraded us and shot 30 of us as an example," they said. The Viennese were led by German officers, several of whom were found shot in the back after the engagement. Captured Germans praise the fighting qualities of the Imperial troops.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1941, Page 7
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