ROWED TO CRETE
NEW ZEALANDERS' ESCAPE
FROM GREECE
CAIRO, May 21
Believed to be the last British soldiers to leave Greece, a small party of New Zealand cavalrymen and Maoris reached Crete in a leaky rowing-boat shortly before the German parachutists attacked.
They were originally cut off near the Corinth Canal, and they sneaked about the mount is and olive groves for days, eluding the Germans. Villagers fea them and provided them with civilian clothes. Then they found an 18-foot rowing-boat on a beach, and they made the voyage of 140 miles to Crete with one pair of oars.— U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 9
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100ROWED TO CRETE Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 9
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