SAMOS GARRISON
CAPITULATION REPORT
LAST ALLIED AEGEAN BASE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 10.50 a.m. LONDON, November 22. Berlin radio announced that the garrison on the Aegean island of Samos surrendered this morning. The station's military commentator stated that the capitulation occurred on the initiative of about 3500 British soldiers who. in view of lack of air protection, refused to face a bombardment from dive-bombers without any chance of success.
With the fall of Samos the entire system of bases of the British and Italian forces in the Aegean Sea is now in German hands.
Reuters military correspondent says that although the German cliam is not confirmed in London, there is no disposition to regard jt as unfounded. It is thought unlikely that as many British soldiers are involved as the Germans state1.
The reasons which prompted the British authorities to run the risk of establishing exposed garrisons on Kos, Leros. and Samos have not yet been explained^
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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