Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-12
READY TO FLEE

READY TO FLEE
German afternoon newspapers
0day played up the report that
transports in Piraeus. the
larbor of Athens, have steam UP
'eady to evacuate the British OK
leditionary force.
The war situation on Holy Sat
lrday was pictured by the Ger
mans as follows:
.-FiehtiHg In YugnslaXia AL
Il ready is narrowing down to
a bitter guerilla struggle within
large rings isolated by the null
tiple German advance.
C-German armies, having
- formed a junction with the
Italian forces In the Lake Och
rida section, now are converg-
ing on the Greek and British
lines.
Dover the Easter weekend
the Germans may pause. as
they did for six days In France.
and assemble their forces for an
onslaught which they expect
will break down final Greek
resistance.
I-Collapse of Greece will con-
front the British with the
choice of a second Dunkerque"
or early evacuation-with evacu-
alton the more likely.
1.-The Greeks are expected
- shortly to abandon Albania
and retreat to the main battle
ground.
SEE NEW FRONT
Theme front below the Olyfn-
dc region. according to the Ger
mans. is being drawn up on a
straight eaSt-west line from La
-issa, on the arterial Athens.
Salonika Railway, through Tricala
10 Yanina From Yanina, for the
present the line reaches north.
ward TO the Albanian front, but
The Germans predict that com.
)ined Italo-German forces quickly
will compel the Greeks to quit Al
)anla and straighten out the line
As further evidence that the
British plan 10 withdraw from
Greece. the Germans pointed otft
hat the British commander in
freeze was placed under the
ommand of the Greek com
6ffef of The BE, is Lieut.. Gen.
Sir Henry Wilson Maitland. who
ed the British campaign against
3engazi. Now he serves nomi-
lally under Field Marshal Alex
Inder Papagos, Greek army chief.
PLACING BLAME
This classification. said the Ger
mans. is the first British step 10
addle the blame for the Balkan
lebacle on the Greeks.
Meanwhile the Italo German
'incers are cutting of Croatia.
outh Serbia is isolated. and the
ieunan push northward from Ms
5 bound to result in the fall of
istoric Sarajevo, the Germans
aid.
Forces pushing into the Belgrade
rea and towards the west are ex-
ected speedily 10 complete occu-
alton of YugoSlavia. although
uerilla fighting may be pro-
racted in the mountain regions.
While Yugoslavian defe Q
orceS crumbled before the Nazi
it was asserted. Ger
nan planes bombed railways. bar
acks. supply depots and airports
nd destroyed ships laden with
var materials in the Sava River.
Official announcement that Ger
nan and Fascist forces had joined
n this strategic area was accom-
,anied by claims that all remain
ne Yugoslavian military units are
lislntegrating under the blows OF
Naki Stuka dive-bombers and pan
.er divisions
West Of Zagreb (Agraml, the
'apltal of Croatia, large Yugo.
,laVian columns were declared &c
nave surrendered en- masse to Ger.
nan ground troops after expert
'ncing attacks by German plapes
hat screamed down from the sky
Other German bomber forma.
ions attacked Salamis Bay for the
econd time. il was announced
linking 33,00O-ton vessel.
SHIPS DAMAGED
Other merchant ships totaline
ome $4,000 tons were stated TO
lave been damaged severely.
The latest German claims re-
,arding attacks on Salamis Bay
n Greece brought TO 10000 tons
he total of shipping said to have
'een sunk or damaged there.
The concentrated German
attacks on Salamis Bay indi-
Gated this Greek harbor may be
the principal British supply
base in Greece.)
With al least $4,000 Yugoslav
roops and huge quantities of cap
ured war material in German
iands, German quarters reiterated
heir predictions of complete Yugo-