The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-23
Another Dunkirk Is
 Promised By Hitler
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alrcraft," he said. T am prepared to say with authority that they ar' fine machines, ready to fly anC fight, We find the American aircraf engines quite as good as any in thu world"
 He said that in the past few day, Britain has received 95 planes b! sea, 355 tons of aircraft parts ant 326 engines.
 "That is surely a first rate con gignment," he said.
 Only one plane, he said, has beer lost throughout the operations o the aircraft ferrying service.
 D. s. Torpedo Boats
 Secretary of the U. s. Navy Franl Knox announced today that thu navy is delivering about 20 small fast torpedo boats to Britain. Int navy is discussing a mutual small craft construction program witr Canada to hasten allotment of addi- tional boats to the British. Knox said at press conference that the small craft assigned to Britain either are at docks ready 10 be shipped in cargo vessels or ai- ready have been placed in British hands.
 He said that as the result of con- versations with Canadian Naval Minister Angus Macdonald and of discussions between President Roos- evelt and Canadian Prime Minister w L. Mackenzie King, Canadian shipyards may take over construc- ton of a number of small boats. This would relieve our facilities and would facilitate that type of aid to Britain, he explained.
 I've would be very glad to nave this work done in Canada" Knox said. Tt would enable Canada to increase her volume of dollars for exchange purposes"
 Knox said 1t would be entirely feasible" for the United States to purchase small craft from Canada and then turn them over to Britain under the terms of the lend-lease act.
 F''Canada has to buy lot of things in the United States" he explained, "and she is running short Of ex- change. We have agreed to pur- chase as many things as we can from her to maintain her balance
 There was general agreement, however, that only miracle could save the situation in Greece.
 No Hope For Miracle
 There was no hope either in Lon- don or Athens that such a miracle would occur.
 The war bulletins indicated that Thermopylae Pass-the mountain gap 85 miles north of Athens were Leonidas and 300 men fought to the death against the Persion Xerxes- had been breechde.
 The Greek army of the west, trapped between German and 1tal- ian forces-it retreated out of AL baniN, had capitulated.
 King George, the Greek Grown Prince and government had fled to Crete.
 The end of the war in Greece, obviously, was near.
 For l8 days the Greeks and an elite British expeditionary corps had stood off the pounding of the Wehrmacht. Outnumbered in man power by odds of anything from five to ten to one and in machines by o far greater margin, the Allies had fought as stubborn battle as wsis within their capability.
 But Germany had too many guns, too many tanks, too many StukaS, too many achievements.
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 Collapse of the southern Serbian a.a,.r, enabling the Nazis to slice tllrc,sn the Vardar valley and twist down through Bitolj Pass, turned the Allied campaign into one long rear-guard action. Starting in the northern mountain ranges the Brit ish and Greeks slowly gave ground They halted to give battle at each natural barrier, then retreated south to the next mountain range and fought again.
 Today the Germans had cut through the last barrier that of Thermopylae and there was nothing but a broad flat highway and rear guard attachments who were pre- pared to sell their lives as dearly as possible between the NaN spear head and Athens.
 Two Sharp Queries
 Today two questions were upper fnogt in London.
 How many British troops have been saved? Where will Hitler strike next?
 To the first question there was no ready answer. The Germans have claimed-and logic would in- dicate that they are correct-that the British in the past few days have been desperately attempting to evacuate as many of their troops as possible.
 That evacuation, 1t was assumed, is still underway and will continue until the Germans smash through the last human barriers and reach the quaysides where British troops are moving out to the boats.
 But there has been no estimate of how many men will come back from the Balkan gamble. Berlin claims that scores of ships have been sunk in Stuka and level ~---------------------------- -