ISLANDS OCCUPIED
THRUST AGAINST BALKANS (Received Sept. 24, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 23 More troops are being sent to the Dodecanese Islands, according to Turkish reports, which say that British warships are moving in and out of the islands and Allied planes are using the newly-established airfields. The Allies occupy four of the Dodecanese Islands—Castelrosso, Kos, Leros and Samos. The British forces bypassed the German-held Rhodes Island, the main island in the Dodecanese group, to land on Leros, Kos and Samos. Landings on other islands are expected soon, as a preliminary to a thrust against the Balkans from the south-east.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22151, 24 September 1943, Page 5
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