“MELANCHOLY OPERATION"
Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, whose despatch describing the seven days' evacuation of Greece in April, 1941, of 50,000 troops, says: “ This melancholy operation ” might have been more unhappy had the enemy shown more enterprise. The ships used in the evacuation had not surface or air protection and the merchant seamen were praised for their gallant and enterprising performance in taking the ships into unlighted and difficult anchorages, in many cases without adequate charts.—N.Z.P.A. Reuter-London.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26776, 20 May 1948, Page 5
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