Hard Struggle Before Menace is Ended

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 95, 22 April 1941, Page 5

Hard Struggle Before Menace is Ended

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Greece is generally commented upon in the weekly press. The Sunday Times says: “Battles so, intense and continuous as those which have raged in the Balkans ever since Hitler launched his attack just a fortnight ago allow of little description during their progress. We can still form no picture of the day-to-day movements, but enough is known to show that the Greeks, British, Australians and New Zeaianders have fought with the utmost determination. "The German machine had nowhere 'previously encountered more dogged and moro effective resistance. Disproportionate losses have been inflicted on its advancing troops, but the struggle has been very unequal. Yugoslavia was caught still unready and collapsed. Her rapid defeat permitted the Germans to mass the whole of their strength ag&jnst the Anglo-Greek front. The weight of the attack has grown from one day to another and it has now assumed gigan tic proportions.

“And here we may note the peculiarity which distinguishes the present from all previous wars. In rugged or fortified country where the accesses are narrow it is impossible to throw more than a definite weight of ground troops against the nodal point and even artillery concentration has its limits. But to air pressure there are no limits. That is what has falsified the good doctrines of the defensive and made an end