Evening star., 1941-04-29
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, April 29.-Informed
sources said tonight that German
troops were approaching the
last harbors in extreme Southern
and Southwestern Greece"
These harbors were described as
the only ones available for removing
the remainder of the British and
Greek forces still fighting in Greece.
The high command had said only
that the Germans we're reaching
into the southern half of the
Peloponnesus in their pursuit of the
Allies.
British Flee in Small Boats.
These informed quarters said the
British had been embarking on
sailing ships and other small YES
sels-even fishing boats-in their
flight to Crete, about Is miles away.
Numerous sailing ships on the
Strand and during passage were
bombed and machine-gunned," they
said.
MANY were sunk and others
damaged and rendered unseaworthy.
The Dunkerque episode was re-
peated."
On the retreat from Flanders
at the end of last May and the
beginning of June. British and
French forces waited on the
sands at Dunkerque for ferrying
across Dover Strait to England
in all manner of boats, includ-
ing the smallest capable of max
ing the crossingD
Crete Not Likely Target.
BY all indications. Crete, Greece's
largest island and now seat of her
government and base for the Brit
ish, is next in line for attack after
the mainland mopup.
The "mopping up" today's COM
murlique said, had progressed beyond
1ripoliS. in the heart of the
PeloponnesuS.
While Nazi land forces were in
hot pursuit of the Allies, the high
command said the Luftwaffe sank
five ships aggregating 18600 tons
and damaged number of smaller
vessels in Greek waters yesterday
in a relentless effort to cut off
escape of the British Expeditionary
Force
BOmbers Nearing Crete.
Voelkischer Beobachter, Adolf
Hitler's newspaper, declared Crete
no longer is a pleasant anchoring
place for English warships."
The newspaper pointed out that
every mile of the Nazi advance
across the Peloponnesus brings
Crete, with its big Suda Bay naval
base. into closer and more effective
range of Greek-based German
bombers.
The long, narrow island extends
from 10 to 100 miles southeast of
Laconla, the nearest part of the
Peloponnesus. Suda Bay is 100 miles
from Laconia.
Greek Premier Emmanuel
Tsouderos declared at Canea.
Crete, yesterday that Greeks
would fight on from there. "Des-
tiny" he said, has chosen two
islands as the last but worthy
ramparts of the free peoples of
Europe: The great island of Brit
ain and this great island of the
Hellenes.'0
Informed sources said Crete, in
German hands, would spell the
greatest danger to British Near East
strongholds-to Alexandria and Port
Said in Egypt, and to the Suez
Canal. They said the flying time for
Nazi long-range bombers operating
against Egypt now from Sicily
would be cut by more than half once
Crete were available to the Luft-
waite.
German military reports from
Greece said German troops, CO.
operating with the Reich's naval
forces, occupied the island of Tha-
SOS, in addition to the Aegean
islands of Samothrace and Lemnos
off the Aegean mouth of the Dar-
danelles. Thasos lies nearer the
Greek mainland than the other two,
and farther from the Turkish
guarded sea gate from the Aegean
to the Black Sea.