DEFENCE MEASURES
EXAMPLE OF GREEKS (0.C.) HAMILTON, Tuesday The opinion that the private people of the Dominion should make more active preparations for defence and take the present international situation more seriously was expressed by Seigeaut «J. W. Calvert, of Hamilton, yesterday. Sergeant Calvert said he greatly admired the Greek people for the way in which they shouldered the burdens cast upon them by the war. Old men, and women, for instance, constructed a road 100 miles long over mountainous country, including a portion of Mount Olympus, in two months. The only tools used were picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows, Sergeant Calvert said. After leaving Greece during a hurried evacuation. Sergeant Calvert spent six days in an open boat. He was a prisoner in Crete for a short time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24214, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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128DEFENCE MEASURES New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24214, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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