How Anzacs Stood Up to Dive-bombing
LONDON, April 3U. Since Mr. Churchill's speech announced the evacuation of 45,000 of the Empire troops from Greece, a despatch has been received from an agency correspondent in Cairo giving an eyewitness account of the dive-bombing and machine-gunning by German planes of the British troops across the .Plains of Thessaly. h The casualties, he says, were very few, but the road running across the plains was pock-marked every hundred yards with bomb-craters. The British artillery commanded the passes, but this availed our troops nothing once the rations and ammunition began to fail through the disruption of transport. Very little transport could get through to bring our troops back, and many of them had to light their way back to the new line on foot. * The bravery of the British and Anzac troops during the withdrawal calls for the highest praise. The observer says that he saw one String of bombs hit the centre of the road and bury a despatch rider and his motor-cycle, but, half an hour after he was dug out, he was on his way again.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 103, 2 May 1941, Page 7
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