Allied Line In Greece

Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 7

Allied Line In Greece

Positions Unsuited For Mechanised Warfare Enemy Repulsed On British Right Sector (British Official Wireless.) . Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, April 15. (Received April 16, at 10.20 a.m.) Rectification of the Allied line of resistance in Greece, which stretches from the Adriatic to the and owes its strength to the fact that the positions occupied are • natural strongholds unfavourable for the tactics of median* ised “ blitz ” warfare, are referred to in last night's War Office communique. To-day’s Greek High Command communique confirms that the Koritza region has been evacuated and that there has been German pressure in the area west of Salonika. The communique says: “ In western Macedonia there was an engagement between armoured units. In the Ptolemais region the German forces pushed towards Klissura, towards Kozani, and towards Sitista (Klissura is in western Macedonia, and is not to be confused with,the town of the same name in Albania). As the result of the occupation of Southern Yugoslavia by German forces, which opened up corridors leading from Yugoslav territory towards the flank and rear, our army in the northern Albanian front, for operational reasons, was ordered to fall back and evacuate the region of Koritza. The enemy, having observed the withdrawal 24 hours after it had begun, attempted in vain to harass the operations by advancing motor cyclists. We captured several dozens of them. On the rest of the Albanian front the enemy attempted offensive operations at several points. He was repulsed everywhere, leaving about 100 prisoners in our hands.” A Middle East communique states; “ In Greece, on our right sector, several attacks by enemy mechanised troops were repulsed. The other areas are quiet.”