Maoris, Cavalrymen Home Before Parachutists
CAIRO, May 21
Believed to be the last British soldiers to leave Greece, a small party of New Zealand cavalrymen and Maoris reached Crete in a leaky rowing boat shortly before the German parachutists attacked. Originally cut off near the Corinth Canal, they sneaked about in the mountains and olive groves for days, eluding the Germans. Villagers fed them and provided civilian clothes. They found an 18-foot rowing boat on a beach and rowed 140 miles to Crete with one pair of cars.
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Northern Advocate, 22 May 1941, Page 9
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