Brave Women

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 3, 5 June 1942, Page 1

Brave Women

’ Those women had as much courage as I’ve seen in any man, and believe me, I’ve seem some brave men. God help any Germans caught by the Cretans. Now it is God help the Cretans. As reprisals for their,'just' reticence in not accepting the German yolk the Nazis are now taking their pound of . flesh a hundredfold. The swashbuckling storm troopers are taking their revenge. Like Greece, there will'be a food shortage. When the Hun hordes have fed their fat bellies there’ll be nothing left for - the peasants. The hardest blow of all will be the resurrection of the Italian prisoners of war. ■ from the Albanian campaign who were sent to Crete before the German invasion. However, the. Cretans will give no quarter on a dark night I’ll-wager. Regarding the means of the Roman .bull-frog, the Nazis allies have as little respect for them as the British did in the last war. A German officer prisoner nodded his square -head in agreement when a Tommy soldier made a disparaging remark about the fighting qualities of the , Italians. , They are the scavengers ofI the Axis alliance. The main army of ’occupation in Greece to-day is Italian, and the influx has commenced in Crete |we are told. '■ ' .. I So : far the war has brought nothing but defeat for us. "We know why—lack of air support. Until we have air su- , premacy the - war cannot end. When we do, the Anzac armies will walk all over ■ the Germans, and when we do walk all over them, we’ll rub it in. I shudder to think of the fate awaiting Hitler’s army when the Maoris 1 fight them on a more . equitable ' basis. The much •vaunted storm troopers cried for I mercy on more than one occasion but they got none —they never will.