The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

Maoris (the Plynesian natives of New Zealand) gave them the fright of their lives. They would run out from cover in punches, shouting their old native war cries and danc- ing Maori war dances. The Nazis ran.
 Some of our men were cut off when the bridge was blown up. The rest of us fought our way to the coast, fighting as we retreated hour after hour.
 "The parachutists used red para chutes for landing heavy trench rllortars and white parachutes for their gunners and machine gunners
 Picked blitz troops on motorcycles with machine guns, joined them.
 Fought Them to Beaches
 We fought them right up to the beaches. There the navy was waiting and held them off while we jumped into small boats and rowed out into the bay. The Nazis kept firing at us, after dark, and riddled many of our boats"
 Greek Evzone troops, the skirted shock units who had slaughtered the Italians with the bayonet, made & pact with the New zealanders in the Daphne zone to fight to the last.
 The New Zealanders went into &C., tion with machine guns against Nazi ground troops. Then German para chutists came down and the Evzones went after them with the bayonet.
 we left nothing but dead Ger mans on that battlefield" a New Zealander said.
 The New Zealanders continued their retreat to the beaches; the Evzones, members of @ Greek rear guard, remained to await more Ger mans.
 Certain beaches had been selected for authorization. So efficient was the German espionage system that they had to be changed by secret signal. Rescue ships had to hug the coasts under the fire of Stuka bombers, as they sought stragglers who waited on small beaches with their wound- ed. They carried wounded men to the ships on their backs, wading out to meet the ships boats.
 Some of the imperial units had lost their officers.
 With some of them were Jugo- slav infantrymen and air force pilots, many Greek pilots were with them also.
 Other Warships Aided
 It is possible to disclose also that many Jugoslav and Greek destroy- CTS, submarines and other warships joined with the British fleet and aided in protecting the evacuation.
 The imperial forces marched through the Peloponnesus by night, leaving the rear guard to hold off the Germans, and hid by day.
 At dusk the Germans would come over the woods in which the troops and trucks were waiting, and "dust off" the entire area with machine gun fire, methodically riss-crossing their target area, giving special at- tention to trees and bushes.
 Yet We believe that there were not more than 50 casualties in our contingent.
 We were sleeping under trees one night. too tired to be awakened by the first bombs which dropped, But then explosive bullets began strik- ing the ground around us.
 A Greek peasant nearby was screaming as he hugged his shat tered knees We dived for a ditch and were joined by two New zealanders We dodged from side to side of the ditch to keep to the windWard side of the planes which flew back and forth.
 AS the planes flew of a New zealander gripped Gorrell's hand and said.
 Can't Be Worse
 q guess we'll make it.; 1t can't be worse than this"
 When we marched we sang-Tip- perary. Keep the Home Fires Burn Ing and such songs, and In the press contingent one man started singing the Star Spangled Banner.
 A Scots regmet marching past shouted at us, and McNIillan, a Scot, struck up "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond," amid the cheers of Scottish troops.
 We reached the authorization point at dawn. All day long thousands upon thousands of men poured in and then marched of to disappear on hillsides, hidden by bushes, or in wheat fields.
 They lay all day among the rocks and the peoples and the wheat while 1 German planes secured the country side.
 Once we ventured into town and were caught in terrific blast of bombs and machine gun bullets which blew up a truck near us, kill ing its two occupants. A third, wounded, escaped, and was operated on aboard our transport.
 The German planes dropped mag netic mines in the harbors, bombed NO