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R.A.F. BOMBS AND MACHINE-GUNS Greeks Greeted

DISRUPT NAZI PANZER DIVISIONS

Tremendous Battles For The Greek Valleys

TERRITORY LOST 'by BULGARIA 1916

JUGOSLAVIAŚ

RUMANIA

R DANUBI

BUCHAREST

SOFIA

BULGARIA

GREECE

SALONIKA

TURKEY

ISTANBUL (CONSTANTINOPLE),

TIIRKEY

By RICHARD MCMILLAN Special to the "Telegraph"

ATHENS, Apr. 8 (UP)-Royal Air Force fighters and bombers are aiding the Greeks to hold the mountain passes as the fury of the German attacks intensifies.

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British bombers and machine-gunners have set their sights on the long lines of Panzer divisions which are filing through the valleys, parti- cularly in the upper Struma Valley.

The British air attacks are extremely fierce as heavy reinforcements of the R.A.F. continue to pour into Greece.

British Invade

NAZI STRATEGY Bulgaria

IN BALKANS

Seek To Drive A Wedge

Troops Penetrate Border, Report

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BUDAPEST, Apr.

8

ALL-DAY AIR BATTLES

Forts like Rupel and Vista which, as the com- muniques announce, are holding out against the heaviest assaults, are strong pillboxes dug into the wooded hill- sides, and form part of the Metaxas Line which ́is manned by crack Greek troops whose motto is "Death rather than surrender.”

British fighter planes throughout the day fought| air battles, checkmating enemy plancs dive-bombing the| mountain forts, where the tactics of the battle of France are being repeated, the planes being employed as artillery while the tanks attempt to smash through the gaps and clear a way for the infantry.

The announcement of the evacuation of western!

(By "Reuter's" Diplomatic Correspondent) LONDON, Apr. 8.-The statement in the Greek officid (UP).—The Greek radio re- communique that the Yugo-Slavs had fallen back on the Greek ports that British troops. left wing, leaving it "uncovered." suggests that the Germans have penetrated Bulgarian Thrace was not a surprise, as this was part of the are pursuing the same strategy in the Balkans as in France soil and that the British general plan envisaged for the hostilities in order to where their drive against the "hinge" of the French and Belgian Legation staff is leaving shorten the line; even though it gave the enemy a foot- lines forced a wedge between the north and south Allied armies within 48 hours, via Russia. hold on the Aegean Sea. with results which the world knows.

Bombing Of Sofia Described

It would seem that the Germans;

Bombs On Bulgaria

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Jare now attempting to establish

themselves between the Greeks and ATHENS, Apr. 8 (Reuter).- the Yuro-Slavs by a lateral thrust Heavy raids by formations of along the Strumitza Valley which, fi successful, would give access to the B.A.. bombers on enemy posi- Vardar Valley.

tions in Bulgaria during the night of April 6 are reported in #communique issued by the henciquarters of the British forces in Greece.

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It might even be pushed to Albanian borders so as to link with the Italians.

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It is officially announced that the R.A.F. made heavy raids on enemy positions in Bulgaria, hitting vital points along the lines of communication, principally at Sofia, Gornadjumaya, Simtili, Patriarch and Strumica, machine-gunning and bombing enemy troops, convoys and rail stations.

British Army To Meet Nazi Shock Troops The British army in the Bal- kans, strongly reinforced by But conditions in France were It says that a rallway junction and tanks and all other units since very different from those prevailing marshalling yards in Trucks Hurled In Air in Yugo-Slavia to-day. In France attacked successfully, direct hits the earlier contingents disem- not only were there magnificent causing many fires and explosions in barked in Greece, is preparing to ATHENS, Apr. 8. (Reuter) roads which made travel and trans-the railway yards and Industrial area. meet the Nazi shock troops as seen to be the enemy increases his efforts "I should not have liked to be part easy but food and petrol were Railway trucks were

Available at every village and ut hurled into the air. anywhere near the Sofia railway every cross-road.

Lorries in the Struma Valley road to break through the Macedonian

mountains to the Aegean. station on Sunday night as the In Southern Serbia, the roads are were machine-gunned.,

Greek advance Another formation bombed neighbourhood of the railway little better than tracks and both junction must have been particu-petrol and supplies will have to be railway station at Gorna Djumaya, frontier guards are putting up

valiant fight against the Panzer larly unhealthy," said one of the carried with the advance...

At Simithi, the railway station and divisions which suffered heavy losses R.A.F. pilots on his return from

road

junction, a motor transport in tanks. a raid on Sofia.

Ho continued: "One stick of bombs from our aircraft scored direct hits on the tracks and we saw trucks being hurled into the air. It was good bombing all right. We were not the only ones to score because we saw a continuous white glow where the station buildings of Soin should have been when arrived.

Searchlights Attacked "My navigator was saved much trouble by the ares which guided us to our target. It was a small edition of the fires which burn every night In the Ruhr. The front gunner put paid to the crews of a couple of search- lights and anti-aircraft gun before we got down to business.

Size of Wedge

Also, in France the wedge formed

where fires were started.

the

elements and

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convoy and troop concentrations were It is recalled that the Grecks was so wide and strong that it was attacked. Bombs straddled the rail- using many British anti-tank guns way and road, exploding near some TURN to Page 5, Column Two shetis and causing many fires.

of against the Allied attempts to TURN to Back Page, Column 3

German Planes

Raid N. Ireland

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motor transpurt convoy was success- fully machine-gurned.

Petrich Raided

Also

The town of Petrich was raided by our bombers but the full results could not be observed owing

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In Albania

A new turn in the Albanian

war is possible as a result of the reported invasion of the northern part of the country by Yogo- Slav troops. In the meantime,

the Greeks continue to keep the Italians on the run, in Albania. This picture shows Greek soldiers being welcomed by an Albanian notablo on entering an Albanian village.

Fiery Onslaught By Greeks In Latest Albanian Offensive

LONDON, Apr. 8 (Reuter)—The offensive operations begun by the Greek troops on the Albanian front yesterday continue with “exceptional success,” according to the latest reports from the front, says the Athens radio to-night.

The announcer continued: "In the early hours of yesterday, after artillery preparation, our forces launched a strong attack. The violence of our action was so great that enemy forti- fied positions, barbed-wire entanglements and machine-gun nests wero annihilated.

Kunming Heavily Bombed

"The enemy was chased out of his positions and suffered a real debacle in men and material. The struggle continued through- out the day. The Italians left dead, wounded and war material on the battle-field and prisoners in our hands."

Defences Taken Over Describing the attack, the corres-

FRENCH SEA TRAFFIC

M.P.'s Allegations

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH".

LONDON, Apr. 8 (Reuter) — ZURICH, Apr. 8 (UP). The Ger- ta smoke from numerous fires in the

The following communique mun rado was heard to announce orga.

Striking allegations about trade We that for the first time during the war, Yesterday in bad weather, our has been issued by the Post-

KUNMING, April 9 (Central pondent at the front of the newspaper between France and her colonies Gerinan planes attacked northern bombers, escorted by fighters, attack-master-General: Ireland, They reported that several ed a large motor transport concen-

The issue of the Post Office Newa).-Twenty-seven Japanese "Estia" says: "Greek infantry detach were made by the Liberal mem- TURN to Back Page, Column 3 large fires had been started.

Inward and Outward Mall bombers carried out a devastat-ments fell upon the enemy with tem- ber, Mr Geoffrey le Mander, in

pestuous violence. Fortifled works, Notices, except in the case of ing raid over Kunming shortly machine-gun posts and several lines the House of Commons to-day. direct Air Mails will be dis- after noon yesterday. Numerous of trenches were captured at the point continued as from to-day, and no light and heavy bombs and in- of the bayonet in a sweeping charge. enquiries of any nature, i.e.cendiary bombs were showered Our troops thers occupied and re- personally, by telephone or by over various parts of the city organised these Italian positions.

"Prisoners were taken in big num- letter, as to the time of closing causing three big fires, as a re-

bers together with plentiful stores or receipt of any particular mail sult of which many houses were and ammunition. Italian casualties

demolished and burned down.

I killed and wounded were heavy," can be entertained.

The British Consulate, the office of the National Red Cross Society of China and several other institutions were also damaged,

The anti-aircraft fire was pretty intense but we got to our targets all right and bombed and stayed to watch the results. Then we had a crack at the convoys on the road down the Siruma Valley, machine-gunning them. After that, wo made for hemo."

Britons Still Chafe Under

Yangtse Restrictions

LONDON, Apr. 8 (Router)-Stranded Britishers in Ichang, British shipping on the Yangtse and the alleged round-up of dissident Chinese seamen in Britain were the subject of ques- tions in the House of Commons to-day.

War Aid For what the

Yugo-Slavia

U.S. Loading Ships'

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" A

Sir Alexander Russell asked | general policy of Japan towards Bri- what the Government was doing thin and other foreign interests in the subsistence of China, on which he had made a Britishora in Ichang who had statement on April 2. great difficulty in obtaining sup- | The Labour member, Mr David plies owing to the Boycott.

Adums, asked whether the Home

Mr R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary Secretary was aware that search par- for Foreign Affairs, replied that a

tien were recently instituted in the WASHINGTON, Apr. 8 (UP) complaint on this point was made East End in London and elsewhere Authoritative sources to-day revealed last July, after which the situation

for the purpose of collecting Chinese that the first shipment of unspecified cased, One further complaint was types of war materials for Yuga-made this February and the matter seamen protesting against the non- Slavia is already being loaded on had been taken up with the Japan-Payment of bonus and that these men. ships at United States coastal points, ese, who had offered to facilitate the were taken to a port for shipment to

Chlon. to carry supplies. The materials are likely to include hiring of a truck

Sir Alexander Rugell, in another Meanwhile, shipping is the major question about the Yangise, suggest problem

and the

Yugo-Slavian od that Japanese shipping be refused Minister, M. Follch, has arranged to facilities in British ports, instuding requisition seven Yugo-Slavian ships the Dominions and the colonies." in United States waters, but it is not

General Policy krown whether or not they will be Mr Butler said that the Yangtse used for the first shipments,

question we warm inseparable from the 1-patriated.

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m.m. guns.

The Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, Captain O. Penke, replied that he had no knowledge of such search parties but recently

number

of Chineso seamen, wholwere con- victed for absence without leave or refusing to obey orders, were re-

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Yesterday's raid was the Arst since February 26,

Anyi Besieged SHANGKAO, Apr. @ (Central News)-Desplie stubborn Japanese resistance, Chinese forces are vigo- rously battering their way forward inwand Any), Important Japanese base 20 miles north-west of Narichang.

Following the capture of Hsiaochikai. | a strategic point near Anyì on April 6, the Chinese are laying alege to the

city itself.

In a question, he suggested that the weekly crossings between France and that chips poss Gibraltar from Africa average 70; Daker, Morocco, Indo-China and the Anthits largely unchallenged;

and that importa between October and February amounted to many tons TURN to Back Page, Column 3

Allied Retreat From Salonika Is Hinted

Special to the “Telegraph”

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LONDON, Apr. 8. (UP),—Military quarters hero declare that Salonika "may have lost some of its Importance since the last war, because it la within close bombing range of the airfields in Bulgaria." This is construed in unofficial quarters as prepar The Japanese in Anyi are said to ing the public for a possible Allied withdrawal from Salonika, be in a crilicn! position, Only a They said tho British with is no confirmation of the report that quick withdrawal can save them. drawal of advanced troops in Aegean Sea in western Thrace.

Germans have roached"; the Guerilla Activity

Cirenaica is proceeding and it It was asserted that "Massawa is SHANGHAI, Apr. 8 (Reuter) was added that the "action is not still holding out and the operations With the coming of spring, Chinese queriline have intensified their acti- necessarily finished" which is oro still continuing. The British it in various areas of Kiangsu and belloved to mean that further forces which took Keren are

solit up, some working to the south? Cheklang provinces, especially along retirement is possible. Met towards Dessle; anxiothers: towards.

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