GREEK CAMPAIGN ENDING

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1944, Page 5

GREEK CAMPAIGN ENDING

SALONIKA WRECKED LONDON. Nov. 2. The Germans completely wrecked the harbour of Salonika before they left, according to reports reaching Athens, states the British United Press. The demolitions in the town Were very extensive, and neighbouring airfields, railways and roads were blown up. The city is orderly, but the inhabitants are suffering from a severe food shortage owing to the Germans’ destruction of the stocks Relief is made difficult by the thoroughness with which the communications and docking facilities were destroyed. The Gulf of Salonika is thickly mined. The British forces in northern Greece sent patrols out to attack the German rearguard at Florina, which is near the Jugoslav border. Casualties were inflicted on the enemy, and a train of 60 wagons was derailed in the same area. M. Papandreou, as Minister of War, signed a decree placing the military governor of the Attica district under General Scobie, Commander of the British troops in Greece. GERMAN VANDALISM LONDON, November 3. As the Germans pull out of' Greece they are leaving a terrible trail of destruction. They are destroying every town and village along their route and shooting people in t'ne fields. In one village of 4000 population only 10 houses are standing out of a former 600. The Germans are even destroying the gardens. These villages have no military value, but the German troops may have been ordered to carry out this destruction to make them so hated that they will be afraid to surrender.