APPALLING STRAIN
Defenders Of Crete
CONTINUOUS ATTACKS FROM THE AIR
Outlook Deteriorates
(Eec. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 28. Although conditions in Crete are extremely difficult to disentangle, competent commentators agree that the worst area remains around Malemi and that the situation about Canea and Suda Bay is undoubtedly precarious. At Retimo there has been some improvement. There have been further German reinforcements of parachute troops at Heraclion (Candia), where the position is not too good.
Emphasis is laid here.on the appalling- strain imposed on the British and Greek troops by continuous bombing- from the air by day and night. It is not the actual casualties that are of the greatest importance in the battle now going on, but the physical and mental exhaustion produced by these air attacks. It is doubtful whether any other troops in the world could have stood the strain better than those now in Crete.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 9
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149APPALLING STRAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 125, 29 May 1941, Page 9
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