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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 22 February 1941, Page 10

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| GREEK TROOPS HAVE FRESH SUCCESSES | LONDON, Feb. 21—Better weathe • enabled the Allies to intensify thei ■ bombing and machine-gunning c' Italian positions and encampments hi Albania with good results. Greek troops achieved new successes, notably in one engagement in which an Italian battalion was almost wipe" out. The Italians in another cpera lion on the central front resisted t. the last* their losses be’ng terrible most being killed and some cap ured Very few escaped before the prsition was taken at the point of the bayonet The Italians lost 20 officers. In n desperate effort to ward off persisten blows from the British and Greek Air Forces the Italians are putting large formations of fighters into Ai bania, and are suffering heavy lesser GERMAN TROOPS ENTER SPAIN MADRID, Feb. 21—Small detachments of German troops entered Spain after Senor Suner, the Spanish Minister, had accepted the offer to assist in the reconstruction of gantader. MAN KILLED AT MATAVRA GORE, This Day—Struck by a tree during felling operations at Mataura this morning, George Anderson, a single man, aged about 64 years, of Maquarrie street, Invercargill, w«i crushed and killed instantly. Hit* workmate, George Murphy, of Mathura, received a fractured left Jc* and was admitted to the Gore Hos pital. Anderson was caught un ,*wares when the tree slewed rounc and his chest was crushed again*another trunk.

TP AROWA JOCKEY CLVB Ruakaka Hurdles —4-4 Inver, 9.7, I 1.1 Silver Eagle, 10.1. 2; 2-3 Koi ■waka, 11.0, 3. Scratched: Loombina tion, Capp, Devon, Gay Seton, Roxj Time, 2.42. DUNEDIN MEETING Owhiro Hurdles—s-4 Superex 1; 6-t Roseman 2; 3-3 Donadea 3. All star i ted. Time 1.46 2-s—a track record. KAIKOURA TROTS KAIKOURA, This Day.— Hapuku Handicap—l Percentage, scr (coupled with Jill), 1; 4 Direc Bingen, scr, 2; 8 Technique, scr, i, Scratched: Plymouth. Stewards’ Handicap—3 Windso j Lad 1; 1 Sea Wolf 2; 4 Shoun Arooit 3. All started