LIBERATION OF GREECE

Grey River Argus, 27 September 1944, Page 5

LIBERATION OF GREECE

LONDON, Sept. 25. German troops in south-eastern Europe are withdrawing everywhere, says the British United Press Cairo correspondent. It is believed that they will eventually try to reach the historic Danube-Sava-Afdriatic Line. Many German garrisons in Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania are pinned down by guerrillas. Germans are withdrawing from the important western Greek town of Janina to Salonika. German transport planes continue to carry the garrisons from the Greek Islands to Athens. Some of the troops are being kept there to reinforce the Athens garrison and others are being sent to Salonika. The Greek Minister of Information (Cartalis) has said that Bulgaria must hand over at once unconditionally and without further discussion, all Greek territories in Macedonia and Thrace which Bulgarians are occupying. A recent medical examination of large numbers of children in Athens disclosed that 75 per cent, were suffering from consumption, due to lack of food. Many villages have been destroyed and millions of people are without shelter. Greek guerrillas occupied Kastoria, 25 miles east of the Albanian town of Koritza. . The Germans withdrawing from the Aegean Islands, esoecially Crete, are passing through Athens and leaving immediately for the north. The lonain Islands are being liberated. Germans have evacuated Zante and Cephalonia. Greek paratroops have landed on Chios and Mytilene. The evacuation of Rhodes and Crete continues with the Germans using Junker 52’s as transports. Guerrillas blew up a German troop train in Thessaly, the train disappearing into the Piriios River after exploding. The Germans carrying out renrisals in Crete executed more than 500 persons. More than 200 families, numbering some 10,000 persons, have beeij, rendered homeless.