ANZACS EVACUATED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 7

ANZACS EVACUATED

AMERICAN REPORT. ' LONDON, April 2Q. According to the military correspondent of the New York Times, the last valiant An/.acs were evacuated from Greece to-day. Ho adds that British and Greek forces have fortified Crete as a base for offensive operations. Today’s communique in Cairo states: “Our withdrawal front Greece is continuing.” German troops are claimed in Berlin to have control of the last harbours in the extreme southern and southwestern areas of Greece and the Pcloponncsc. It is claimed that these harbours were the only ones available to the fleeing British and Greek troops. The Australian Associated Press understands that the German claims to have inflicted heavy casualties on the troops embarking from Greece are greatly exaggerated. ■The Budapest correspondent of the British United Press reports that the Greek radio announced that General Kollakoglu, commander of the Greek army which surrendered in the Epirus, formed a Government in Athens and later issued a proclamation charging the Royal Family with having made a cowardly flight. The proclamation denied the King’s right to represent the nation and appealed to Greek soldiers to cease opposing the Germans. The Ankara correspondent of the Times says German armoured divisions have returned to Bulgaria and Rumania from Greece for refitting. One division which has arrived at Giurgiu lust 65 per cent of its effectives.