The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-18
BRITAIN ADMITS
 DANGER IN GREECE
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 Explaining the strategic situation a spokesman pointed out that orig. unally the British had been on tho |iright of the line with the Jugoslavs sin the center and the Greeks on tho 1eft, in Albania. But the Germans ksmashed through the Jugoslavs ane @ruptured the line Gin the Bitolj gap She said, with the result that tho |IBritish left wing and the Greeks hat tto retire and close up to form { thew line.
 lAn Exchange Telegraph Athen! dispatch said the Germans were Bombing the allied line continually With an estimated 1000 airplanes and at the same time launching at. tacks with their heaviest tanks 1T their attempt to break the line.
 The Greek left flank was report. cd withdrawing rapidly on the west to avoid being entrapped in Albania On the right of the allied line, piv- oted on Mt. Olympus, the British empire forces were reported holding the Germans in savage fighting.
 Germany's high command poured enormous endorsements toward the front from Jugoslavia in hope of breaking through to the plain of Thessaly and driving to the impor- tant rail heads of Kalabaka and La- risa.
 Nazls Striking Hard
 They were striking hard down the main roads from Albania into the heart of Greece, hoping to trap the Greeks west of 1t, and they were striking also direct down the Aegean coast on the other side of the line hoping to trap the British forces in the Mt. olympus region.
 It was obvious, British military experts admitted, that the Greek retreat from Albania was imperiled
 On the east side the battle was gaining steadily in ferocity as the Germans hurled new forces at the Sardanaporon Pass, near Servia, to get into the Tessaly plain.
 The long British-G Greek line, which Q few days ago formed a big curving northward toward the Siatista sec- tor, had now been bent inward SC that its curve was southward, to- ward Kalabaka.
 Experts here watched communl- ques closely, realizing that the Ger mans would break through in this central area and, pouring men and tanks through the mountain passes emerge in the allies rear.
 If this happened we should be ir very grim 1ix," one commentator wrote.
 Commentators generally described the allies task as a superhuman one because of the tremendous reserves which the Germans now had avail able.
 Royal Air Force planes attacked constantly the German troop con- centrations and supply columns ir all sectors. But the Germans seemed to pay no attention to losses.
 Greek People Warned
 Athens, Greece, April 18.-(UP)- The government warned the people today that the Germans were "con- tinuing to advance" and that they must keep calm, ignore wild rumors and keep their shops and offices open.
 Greek troops, holding the left wing of the 150-mile battle line, admit tedly had been thrown back. The loss of Klisura, the last important Albanian town the Greeks had wrested from the Italians before the German attack, and of Erseke, east of there near the Greek border, was announced in a Greek communique.
 The British imperial forces on the eastern flank held a line from Kat erini, on the coast 30 miles south west of Salonika, to Servia, 35 miles southwest of Katerini. where they were resisted all enemy attacks de- spite heavy German air bombings,' , an informant said. He said one British motorized column had brought down five German planes with machine gun fire and that mot one foot of Greek territory behind the Greco-British lines has fallen into enemy hands"
 (The Athens radio was heard in London broadcasting that the Brit isir-1ine from Servia, 20 miles north- west of Kozani, still was intact, al- though "a fierce battle is in prog ress along the whole line.")
 The British were still north of Mount olympus, though the Ger mans had opened @ salient at Grew ena. southwest of Olympus. near the center of the battle line.
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