LEMNOS ISLAND
OCCUPATION COMPLETED LONDON. Oct. 22.
It is officially announced that the Allies have completely occupied the island of Lemnos. The Exchange Telegraph’s Rome correspondent reports that Allied forces accupied the island on October 17. A small enemy force withdrew from the island in ferries and other craft. Many failed to escape. Several enemy craft went ashore. One was set on fire. The British cruiser Argonaut destroyed a large tank-landing craft near Lemnos. The whole of the Cyclades group of islands in the /Egean has been liberated, says the British United Press Athens correspondent. Greek guerrillas have taken over Andros, the last island to fall.
Naval aircraft again attacked enemy rail transport in the Volos area, destroying one locomotive and damaging 20 trucks, reports a Mediterranean communique. The island of Cos was bombed by several aircraft on Friday, while the previous night the destroyers Termagant and Tuacan, operating on the western side of the entrance to the Gulf of Salonika, drove ashore and destroyed a south-bound enemy destroyer.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19441024.2.61
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 5
Word Count
169LEMNOS ISLAND Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 5
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.