BALKAN FLANK
EFFECT OF NEW LANDINGS
RUGBY, September 21. British forces have occupied three of the Dodecanese Islands—Kos, Leros, and Samos. The R.A.F. is already operating from the airfield at Kos, and Leros has a big harbour which was an Italian naval base. By going into the Dodecanese we have broken through the outer ring of the German defences in the Aegean Sea and the south-eastern Balkans, and are within a hundred miles of the Greek mainland. In the Balkans generally the presence of large numbers of Italians, either disarmed or not, is an embarrassment to the Germans. There is one report that the Germans are sending numbers of Italians out of Greece, "to clear the decks." —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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119BALKAN FLANK Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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