Evening star., 1941-04-22
Yugos|avsSay
100000 Still
Fighting Ndziis
Diplomatic Sources
Contend Only Two
Armies CupituIoted
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By trC Associated Press.
Five Yugoslav Armies, num-
bering 100000 to 100000 men
were reported late today to be
still holding out against axis as
saults in Central YugoSlavia.
while on the Greek front, Adolf
Hitler'S panzer divisions Stormed
down toward Thermopylae Pass,
only 100 miles from Athens.
Yugoslav diplomatic sources in
Vichy, France, said 5000 Slav troops
had newly attempted to break
through to the south, but had been
driven back, and that only the first
and fourth Yugoslav armies in the
north had capitulated. The rest, it
was said, had withdrawn to form
q compact square.
Britain claimed a series of blows
at the axis with these chief results:
Six supply ships and a destroyer
hit and vast destruction wrought
ashore in a 42-minute bombardment
of Trlpoli, Libyan capital, by the
15-inch guns of the battle fleet:
Three ammunition and supply
ships, totaling $4,000 tons, torpedoed
by naval aircraft:
-Four troop transport planes shot
down at sea.
Other Ports Attacked.
Fiery damage done to Tripoli and
other Libyan ports and airdromes-
Fort Capuzzo. Bardia, Derna and
Ain Ell Gazala-by the R. A. F. and
feet air arm simultaneously with
the naval shelling.
On the negative side, as far as
Britain was concerned, was the
cracking of both ends of the Greek
British line in Greece. The Ger
mans captured the Aegean coastal
towns Of VoloS and Lamia, and cut
of the rear of the Greek armies
fighting in the west by taking loan
nina.
Eastern Greek harbors are packed
with ships of all sizes busy moving
troops out of the country. D. N. B.,
German official news agency, said
it has been determined by Nazi
reconnaissance planes.
MotorboatS, cutters and small
craft of every description are wait
ing in PiraeuS, port of Athens, and
other remaining ports for place at
the few undeStroyed quays, the news
agency said. Roads leading to these
ports. it added, are clogged with COL
umns of troops.
The news agency said German air
activity was disturbing the British
efforts.
AirdrOmes Are Raided.
Heavy British air raids Sunday
night on German-occupied air.
dromes in Northern Greece we're re-
ported by the r. A. Fs Near East
command.
The communique also said heavy
damage and a number of casualties
were inflicted yesterday on axis
forces in Libya when airdromes at
Derna and Ain Ell Gazala and con-
centrations at Bardia and Fort
Papuzzo were raided.
Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's
deputy, has flown back to Berlin
after delivering a message to Span
ish GeneraliSsimo Francisco Franco
it was reported in London.
Informed quarters linked this with
the recent Spanish cabinet meetings
and suggested that Hitler was put
ting pressure on Spain to let some
German divisions through the coun-
try to strike at Gibraltar, while the
Axis forces in North Africa are
striving to reach Suez.
Australian political observers eX-
pressed the opinion that the grave
position of the Australian imperial
force in Greece may lead to po-
iitical crisis at home within fort
night.
Labor members of the House are
eager to defeat the Menzies govern
ment on the admission of Arthur
Fadden, acting Prime Minister, that
the war cabinet did not consult the
Advisory Council, on which labor is
represented, before consenting to
dispatch of the A. I. F. to Greece.