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Unconquerable Spirit Of Last Men Fighting Out Of Crete
After the fighting in Crete was over Goering issued this Order of the Day to his air force: "You have proved the Fuehrer's words-Thoro is NO unconquerable island.'"
But these stories from the last men out of Crete prove that there IS an Unconquerable Spirit.
"Dunkirk Nothing
To This'
MEN from London and Manches-and sent over. swarms of dive-bon- ler were
the last ritslibers until they had silenced us." Iroops from Crete to be brought to These boys had to smile or jest, Egypt in safety by the Navy. but they did not complain.
"Even Dunkirk and the battle- What they said was:
"If only we Blekla ut Greece were nothing com- had had air support. pared with this," they sakt.
"If we had only mined the dromes They all told of the terrific Ger- they would ever have been able to man air attacks, of how many of use them," said another, them limped over
mountains to
safety and of how General Freyberg. THAT WAS WHAT THEY ALL their. Cominander-in-Chief, planned SAID bi a cave details of their withdrawald
ONLY WE HAD Among them were lorry drivers PLANES-
THE from London, exhausted and bearded. "IF ONLY WE HAD MORE A.A.
GUNS-
"IF ONLY WE HAD——"
"WE thought everything was up with us when the Germans broke through the hills at night time," said one of the Londoners.
*
CRETE'S evacuation is the Saga of the individual soldier.
It is the story of men who had
THIS officer was wounded in the foot by a three-Inch long splinter, and had to crawl to the beach, where he boarded a destroyer.
Onge aboard, while dive bombers attacked the vessel, he was operated upou under what he described as * road, old-fashioned and excellent anaestheite"-consisting of xlx double rums and a shot of morphila!
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ONE Australian reached Egypt after an Odyssey during which he touched the same points as Ulysses, the classical adventurer of Greek legend.
He was within sight of Mount Olympus when his battalion began withdrawing from Greece, and on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, he was slightly wounded by a bomb frag- ment."
Cut off from his unit, he reachedt
"We had fallen asleep as we were all in, but one of our fellows had already endured the worst bombing picked up a Cretan puppy which ever inflicted on mankind, and then the seashore where he met two other gave the alarm the Jerries erept used up the last
uunce of their Australians. strength in a two-day mountain trek{
towards us.
they
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CRETE In Channel Islands
Suda Bay Not Fortified
Crete must not happen again. It was not only aero- planes we lacked, it was foresight, writes a correspondent in the "Daily Herald."
The Battle of Crete was lost, not this May, but last
November.
The alarm enabled our machine- that they will remember all their down and trimmed a tree which they
They found a rowing bont; cut: punners to open fire, and we killed lives. many of the Germans and took some
used as a must, fixed a blanket to prisoners.
They suffered hunger and thirst it, and set sall for Crete, "One Nazi ofeer" admitted that and cold and weariness and con
They were blown on lo a small had not liked the bayonet was at their heels, and there was ut- Greek monks gave them food and tinual dive-bombing. The enemy island in the Aegean Sca. where charges."
One of the Tommies carried with ways the agonising possiblity that sanctuary. Starting out again they him the puppy that had saved their their journey might prove vain. reached Crete, where the Goldler River.
Belind them skeleton rear-caught with his unit.
up It was in one of the soldier's boots, Foard fought netlon after.aellon. There he took part in wiping out
We occupied the island so which he had removed and was
several batches of parachutists until that we could use Suda Bay as carrying, while he walked barefooted
gun bullets from a German plane. he was struck down by two machine-a naval base. But no serious with his feet bandaged,
A Cretan peasant woman bound up
attempt was made to fortify it. his wounds, and then he trekked THE story of the German attack
No shore batteries were set up and on Suda was told by R.A.F. men, ene
over mountains to reach the const.
Back with a contrades, he re-established
no system of prepared defences was "At Ga.m., several companies of of them from Sale, Manchester, an Germans with mortars appeared over celved his fourth wound when a
protest vital -spots. other from Pamber Heath, Basing-the mountain ridge," said a British bomb exploded on the ship which war monitor Terror was in the bay For a few months the old, fast- stoke, and д third from North captain, "We opened fire at long was transporting them to Egypt.
"The Germans gave Suda every-tion across the road, the Bren car- range-the tanks in a central posi- thing they had until it was a roaring riers deploying on either side, red furnace." they said.
"We made use of every bend in
Landon.
THREE British tanks and three
the
Australion Dren carriers held advancing Germans at bay while our troops retired to the beaches.
"It was funny to see the behaviour the winding rond where we offered of the German prisoners under the fresh stand, halting the enemy. ~machine-gunning. They absolutely and giving our retresting troops us
panicked whenever their own bom-many extra valuable minutes berá appeared,
possible.
"As soon as the Germans realised visible.
ns
we were evacuating, the bombing of side was hoped that the hill-i
and night."
Nazi Plan To Annex France
as a floating fortress. But she was taken away around Christmine.
In Three Wecks
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Luxemburg Terrorised
By Germans
An ex-public-school boy, son of naturalised British parents, is gauleiter and commanding officer of Nazi- out of the Channel Islands. occupied Jersey, This is revealed in a letter smuggled
College, the island's public school, and his parents lived The Gauleiter was, a few years ago, at Victoria
in the island.
To-day, as Hitler's local ruler, hej'now been sent to concentratiori sits in Governanent House, former camps in occupied France.
Melal residence of Jersey's Lleu- tenant-Governors, who each year presented the prizes to the Gautefter,
rand
its school compan
Windmills Built
Windmills have been, erected all
Less than a mile away his old over the islands for grinding corn, school is occupied by his German and some officials have been seni to troops, who seized the priceloss | France under escort to buy provi- furniture from the Island homes of alous, and seed, Lady Trent and.Lady Knott to fur-
The letter does not reveal the nish their now headquarters.
strength of the German garrison in the islands, but says that in order to One of the Gauleiter's high officers stimulate goodwill German bantia in the decupying army, is another old are playing in the parks Victorian.
Son of an English mother, he was known at school by an English rianie. The smuggled letter reveals that his real name is Mueller..
Free dances and sporting events are held.io.encourage fraternisation. with the occupying troops.
It
is also reve
revealed thant Major An- tone, Constable of St Saviour, Jer- sey, and 80 British soldiers who were on leave Jersey at the time of the occupation are now in concentration camps.
Maleme airfeld was built in a few MONTREAL, July 16.-The Pro- weeks, but in the ensuing months! visional Government of Luxemburg there were no attempts to make un-, established here has received reports derground hangers which alone could ¦ of a "reign of terror" by_the_Ger- have protected our aircraft.
mans in the little duchy.
According to detailed reports re- crived by the Luxemburg Govern- Even when whole squadrons of ment from persons who have made fighter planes were destroyed on the | their way from the country,
On Black List the ground in Greece nothing was done wave of terror began early in May to imprave
From another source evidence in- the protection at Ma-after the Germans abandoned a
dicates that for years before the
The mothers of two young British leme.
policy of cecking voluntary. Co-
war Gestapo agents were "spying out Army officers who took part in sor- the land" in Guernsey and Jersey.
tien on Guernsey since the occupa- emburg, because the policy Wais
tion and were captured' have been. found to be ♫ fallure.
When German occupation troops sent to concentrailón camps for, it is were Innded from troop-carrying | alleged," helping to hide their sons. Since that tine, Government 'planes in Guernsey the head of the spokesmen sald, all young persons Gestapo ring in the island-a well- have been forced to join Hitler known business man-handed the youth organizations, many have been comunanding officer a "Black List"- taken to camps in Germany, schools list of people who would be
Seven special neurosis centres have have been closed, and practically all dangerous to the occupation if left been set up by the Ministry of Health business, Intellectual and political at liberty.
since the outbreak of war, but at the leaders have been imprisoned or All the people on that list who height of the billz only 27 cases were carried to German labour camps. were trapped by the occupation have I received.".
pying the
"It would have been nice to have "From precipitous stope 400 seen how they would have acted had yards from the beaches wo looked we been able to bring into play the over the deserted scene. same numbers of planes and troops.
"Only a handful of soldiers were The "DAILY HERALD" said
We
with caves
recently that a "secret report" the evacuation ports went on day stuffed to capactly with British, has reached London revealing After six months in Greece we operation from the residents of Lux-
Australian and New Zealand soldiers Germany's intention of annex.
had not got enough airfields even -waiting for nightfall when British
for our few planes. THE German technique was de-warships would take them on board northern France if the Nazis square miles of ing 25,000
But within three weeks of occu- scribed by three young A.A. gunners by means of barges.
country the Nazis hind from Blackburn,
"When we reached the prepared win_the_war.
fresh landing grounds in use. "It was perfect," they said, "They British line we destroyed our tanks,
A senior Air Force officer said; The Nazi plan of annexsition had every gun position photographed, feaving them to block the rond."
"The Germans were quite ruthless, was said to have been forecast All male Greeks between the ages of jin a report drawn up for the 15 and 30 were conscripted to build
Vichy Government list Febru-airfields."
ร the circumstances Crete was un- tenable,
Even Suda Bay was hardly worth anything to the Navy after Nazi plones had started a systernatie series ot Blitz raids during the spring.
Shipbuilding Hits New
ary by Gen. Doyen, head of the In U.S. Mark
French Armistice Commission at Wiesbaden.
High
By Piorro Villera
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UP).—-The current shipbuilding pro- gramme of the United States has equalled and In some cases surpassed the peak pace of World War I, according to figures released by the Maritime Commission.
At the time of the Armistice in 1918, total production, In- cluding requisitions, amounted to 480 ships, aggregating 2,700,- 181 tons. The Maritime Commission's estimate of ships build- ing in United States shipyards in 1942 is 3,500,000 tons.
In addition, the commission | estimates that for the three years ending in December, 1943, shipyards will have turned out 9,000,000 deadweight tons of ships.
The national shipbuilding of fort will involve expenditure of $1,715,000,000, Shipbuilders are speeding up the pace, and are expected to hit their peak in March, 1942.
"Over 25,000 square miles of north- ern France, centre of iron and steel, mining and textile fridustries will be annexed nnd 7,250,000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen expelled," paper said.
and Garonne plus Brittany and the Central Mountains"
Worships just Iny there ns targets. As long ago as May 12 our intel- thelgence knew that invasion was be-
ing
ng prepared. Vac Natural Borders
Troop-carriers stood wing-tip to оп Greek sírfelds. An "There districts are to be colonised wing-tip
massing in by Germans and France is to be reuir-borne division was
Athens. dured to her so-called natural fron-
Some place was going to be in- tlers the basins of the Seine, Rhone
Yaded and it did not need much Imagination to realise that. Crete was going to be the victim.
It Was Clear It was quite clear we could not supply the needed air protection even for our two small airfields.
Eut it was decided to fight. Our men fought more bravely and
more punishment
than any In this troops in
one can charge Creie's defen- ders with having let the side down. They did ali and more than anyone
The "Daily Herald" said that it was significant that Pierre-Etleune Flan- din, former French premler, resigned from the Vichy Government a few
in Jamary calling for the build days after the repart reached Pre- ing of 203 cargo ships of standar-mier Petain. dised design;
He advised Petain, the paper salð, that he was unable in dignity and took honour to pursue
apolley of Franco-German collaboration.
Construction · of 222 merchant ships as part of the United States' ald to Great Britain, authorised by the President in April.
NO
war.
of these specified ships, 283 JAPANESE NAVAL could have expected.
ships have been ordered in the long-range programme, and orders have been placed for all specified ships in the other two categories. The existing construction plans will produce 1,250,000 deadweight The Immediate goal" of the pre- tous this year, 3,500,000 gramme is the completion by Dcc. and 5,000,000 tons 19. next
31, 1013. of 705 merchant vessels of
Year,
OFFICERS ON BOARD TANKER
-
But even the best troops get de- pressed when, for days on end, they seo only the enemy's planes.
But there is a credit side to it. We certainly caused the Germans
Refusal by Los Angeles har-terrific lostes. bour authorities recently of
the The reason for the sharp increases courtesies of the port to
all types, including both standard from year to year are primarily due Japanese
merchant tanker, Direct And Indirect ships of the long-range programme in expanded shipyard facilities. In Kokuyo Maru, disclosed the pre .and. emergency vessels to be known 1037 there werd ning activo ship.
as the "Liberty Fleet."
yards with a total of 44 ways capa-sence aboard of Capt. K, Itataki
The
Taxation
The construction effort la divided ble of building deep-sen vessels. of the Japanese Navy and 15 into three parti
All were on the Atlantic coast, chlof potty officers.
In reply recently to Mr J. Tinker Commission's Jong-range When present construction facili
(Labour), the Chancellor of the The Japanese Consulate declared programme, begun in 1930, which tics, are completed later this year; the vessel was under charter to the
Exchequer, in the House of Commons calls for the re-establishment of a there will be in operation 20 ship- Japanese Navy but harbour au
Have the following figures of the per- stable and effelent American met yards with 180 ways, not including thorities held it had entered port
centages of direef and indirect taxa- chant marine. This specifles con- Great Lakes yards or those building previously as a merchant vessel and after the 1941-42 Budget: S
tion, showing the position before and struction of 600, ships over a ten-naval. vessels exclusively. Seven that there wha. no record of Vita) (L
** Indirect Direct year period;
yards with 61, ways have been bull!, changed status.
per cent, percent. The emergency' national defence and ten moro ways will be added. The Kokuyo Maru was loading" 1960-41 | (Exchequer, toxine
construction programane In addition, existing yards have built 63,000 barrels of crude oil and 19,000|04|dz: (Existing barla) ship
exfpta) meULATES E847 authorised by President Roosevelt 42 now ways in their own plants. barrels of gasoline for Japan. | 1941-42 čudget proposals) $2.65
31.61 04.37
NOT NERVOUS
KEEP THE BOMBER FUND SOARING
TYPES OF BOMBERS HITTING HITLER 3. The Handley Page Hampden DONATIONS TO DATE: $2,444,147.95
REMITTED TO LONDON: £151,939.19.64