GREEK TRIBUTE

Grey River Argus, 23 July 1942, Page 5

GREEK TRIBUTE

TO NORTH AMERICAN WAR EFFORT RUGBY, July 21. Expressing admiration for the amazing military effort and output of the United States and Canada the Greek Prime Minister, M. Tsouderos, who with the king of the Hellenes has just returned to London after visiting Egypt, Palestine, Syria, United States and Canada, said that anybody seeing this activity could have no doubt of the outcome of this war.

Referring to the activities of the Greek Navy, he said it had been carrying on the fight ever since going to Crete, after the occupation of Greece and had been augmented by ten ships, four destrovers, four corvettes and two others, made ovex' to Greece by Britain. M. Tsouderos spoke scathingly of the German attitude towards the food situation in Greece, stating that although >the situation had now slightly improved, during the winter deaths in Athens, Piraeus and the islands reached the terrible figure of a 1000 daily from sheer starvation. The recent situation in Athens could best be judged by the fact that big lorries during the winter had to be sent daily through the city gathering up the corpses of people who died from starvation, lying in streets and taking others from houses, all to be buried in common graves.