The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-16
Nazis Are Launching
 Two-Pronged d Drive
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pronged German drive into Greece they added, is an effort to- encirclt the British army, which the Ger mans still charged was attempting to escape from Greece.
 Well.informed sources said that 1t was not known definitely whether the bulk of the British forces hI Greece had been engaged or whether the British were fighting real guard action, but 1t was contendeo that they were attempting to es1l. bark forces toward Egypt.
 We link hands Gin the eastern Mediterranean with our ally Italy, said the Voelkischer Beobachter "Naval warfare based on the Greek coasts and later on the Greek 1s- lands, in conjunction with the land offensive through Libya and air war in the Aegian Seq, will shake the British position on three continents at the corner of the Mediterranean
 "An empire held together only by the sea can be struck nortally on the seas."
 Thousands of Serbs are laying down their arms, the high command asserted in its communique.
 Authorized Nazi infornants added that individual subordinate Jugo- slav authorities already had offered to surrender in local areas.
 The high command said Sarajevo capital of Bosnia, Q city of 80,00t people, manly Serbs and Greats, hao been occupied by German motorized forces. At Sarajevo, in 1914, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria precipitateo the last war.
 Nazi spokesmen said 1t was ques- tionable whether 6 unified Jugoslal high command or government stilI existed which could sue for an arm. istice. But, they added, the military situation had now reached 8 stage where an arinistice could make lit. tie difference.
 "The internal unity Of the sert government apparently has beer broken" a spokesman said. Theo- retically Q unified army command still exists. But there Is no sign O! one in practice. We do not ever know whether the whole Jugosla, what It's temporary capital is."
 There are reports, the spokesman said, that General Dusan T. Silno' vich, Jugoslav premier, had beer replaced by another general. GA dispatch from Leon Kay United Press correspondent with tht Jugoslavs, had reported that Gen cral Milan Medic. was the active army comnander.)
 He said the whereabouts of IT. year-old King Peter was unknown
 Dragisha Cvetkovic, the Jugosla, premier who was overthroWn aftel his government signed Jugoslavia into the Axis, has been discovered by the Germans and released, thu spokesman said. but the whereabout. of Alexander Cincar-M r-Markovitch tho former foreign minister ailt other imprisoned leaders was no' known.
 Tn It's communique the high com. mand said:
 Remnants of the Serb army are in process of tlisintegration. Ger. man motorized troops thrust for. ward O., far as Sarajevo and oc. cupieU the city. Thousands of Serbs have laid down their arms and the numbers of prisoners and quantities of war materials captured are an' creasiny hourly"
 German planes bombed railroads and military bases in the Southern Herzegovina area, where many Jugoslav troops were lnassed, and Jugoslav naval base in the Adriatic the high command said. A ddrect hit was made on big armed trans port, 1t was added. Another large merchantmen was damaged neal Brazza (Brac) Island, of the Jugo. slav coast south of Split, the com. munique said, and Q flying boat wat destroyed In the same area. M
 Authorized informante described the fighting in Greece as having en- tered new phase.
 The high command said German dive bombers. had caused heavy losses 10 British and Greek troops retreating south of servia, north. west of Mt. Olympus.
 Three British planes were shot down in air battles, i7 were destroy ed aground in machine gun attackt on Greek air fields, and nine large ships were damaged in attacks on Piraeus harbor. Port of Athens. by