Askov American., 1941-04-10
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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the document seems to be of no par
ticular interest
Outside Help.
To Greece the new situation is a
Every serious one. The Greeks proved
their ability to take care of one big
power attacker Italy, but when two
come against them, the ultimate re-
suit may be doubtful.
From early dispatches it appears
that the Germans moved into northern
Greece from Bulgaria, and Berlin ad-
mits that the nazi troops were fac
ing an unusually stiff resistance; that
also was said with reference to Yugo-
slavia
The question at the moment is:
Can YugOslavia and Greece ex-
pect any help from the outside?
There have been promises galore;
Great Britain has said that she will
aid, and the United States has prom
ised supplies and moral support, but
there is always the further question:
How will such aid get through, and
will it come soon enough?
For weeks it has been reported that
several British divisions had arrived
at Salonika and PiraeuS in Greece, but
nothing has been reported concerning
the possible extent of their opera
ton. 1t is now said that there are
100000 British soldiers in the Bal
kans, and several squadrons of the
Royal Air Force The Britishers,
however, until this writing appear
to interest themselves almost wholly
in Greece, and Yugoslavia fights
alone; already on the first day of the
war Belgrade, the capital of the
country felt the bitter sting of war,
for despite the fact that it had been
proclaimed an open, that is, an un-
fortified city, and as such should be
immune to attacks, the Germans
bombed it numerically melting out
to it about the same treatment to
which Warsaw and Rotterdam had
been subjected.
Bad News.
England heard some bad news from
Africa, for reports, later confirmed,
said that the British had withdrawn
from Benghazi in the Italian colony
of Libya.
The amazing feature of that
information was the fact that it
was the Germans who forced the
British to give up the city which
they had captured from the Itali-
ans on February land another
surprising circumstance was the
fact that the Germans, in spite
of vigilant watchfulness by Brit
ish bombers and warships, had
been able to transport men and
machines across the Mediterrane-
an.
Until this announcement came, it
had been generally assumed that the
British had conquered nearly all of
Libya.
British Victories.
But in East Africa it was a diff
ferent story, for here the British
forces went from victory to victory
A few days ago they took Asmara,
the capital of Eritrea, and are now
on their way to the most important
port of the colony, Massawa on the
Red Sea. When that town falls, the
British will be the masters of Fri
trea, and it does not now seem to
require much time.
In Ethiopia, the Italians who con-
quered the country five years ago,
appear to have been completely sur
rounded by the British, and early this
week reports came that Adds Ababa,
the capital of the country, had fallen
to the British. That will probably
mean that Italy soon will have lost
its entire East African colonial en-
pire and-that Great Britain will
have more men to spare for the Bal
kan campaigns.
During the rapid developments in
the Balkans and in Africa the last
few days, one hears nothing said
about a German invasion of the Brit
ish Isles. Has that plan been given
up?
We don't know.