EVACUATION OF CRETE
15,000 SOLDIERS TRANSPORTED. LONDON, June I. The evacuation of Crete took place on Friday and Saturday, when upwards of 15,000 men were transported io Cairo. The feat was a magnificent one, fraught with serious difficulties. MAJOR-GENERAL FREYBERG. GERMAN REPORT OF DEATH DENIED. LONDON, May 31. A German report that Major-General B. C. Freyberg, Commanderin-Chief of the Allied forces in Crete, is dead, is denied by the War Office, says a British Official Wireless message. The War Office states: “We arc glad to be able to announce that he is alive and with his troops.” According to a Berlin report, MajorGeneral Freyberg was killed in an aeroplane crash while he was on his way to Alexandria from Crete.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXI, Issue 42, 3 June 1941, Page 3
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