A HOSPITAL TOWN
NAZI WOUNDED IN SOFIA. MANY PRISONERS CLAIMED. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Rcc. 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 50. Information reaching London gives a harrowing picture of Sofia which Ims been converted into a hospital town holding tens of thousands of wounded Germans from the Greek front. The German News Agency 6ays that German troops pursuing the British have reached the southern harbours of Peloponnesus. Small parties of British troops from Greece Jrave landed in Palestine from fishing boats. It is claimed that the prisoners captured in the Peloponnesus action include 5000 British, also four Serbian generals and 500 officers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 8
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101A HOSPITAL TOWN Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 8
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