The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-22

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parently being ESTABLISHED, lin the
rugged Lokris mountains, below
the flat plain Of Thessaly.
Lamia lies south Of the Othrys
Mountains, where Il Yves boliev.
ed that the allies had previously
decided to make . stapd.
Italian dispatches had pictured
the British Greek line % stratch.
Ing from LamiA to Aria, across
the upper middle Of the Grecian
peninsula. Aria lies % miles In
land from the Ionian See, 80
miles south Of Ioannina.
BLOCK. RETREAT
The Nazi high command A.
serted that German panzer col.
umns sweeping westward across
the Pindus Mountains to loan
nina had effectively blocked the
Greeks main route Of retreat
to the south.
Premier Mussolinrs high com.
mand said Italian legions were
advancing into Greece along the
entire Albanian front.
Fascist dispatches from the
fighting zones said that the
Greeks were resisting violently
as they retreated, and that while
italian infantry moved down the
valleys, Alpine assault troops
had to scale steep mountainsides
under fire from machine-gun
nests to drive out the Greeks.
German mechanical forces
swept across the historic plain of
Thessaly today to test a new
defense line which British and
Greeks said they had establish
ed after gradual withdrawal
under attacks by nazi dive
bombers.
It appeared the allies, pushed
steadily backward by superior
weight Of men and machines,
were prepared to make another
southern edge Of the Thessaly
which rear their heads ut the
stand in the Othrys Mountains,
plain, and in the rugged passes
Of the Pindus range to the west.
It appeared the allies, pushed
steadily backward by superior
weight of men and machines,
were prepared to make another
stand in the Othrys mountains,
which rear their heads 1t the
southern edge of the Thessaly
plain, and In the rugged passes
of the Pindus range to the west.
British and Greeks said they
had accomplished their latest
withdrawal without . break in
their front, but there were indi-
cations their plight was becom-
ing desperate.
Heightening this impression
were the following:
I. An Associated Press COR
respondent who reached neutral
Turkey from Greece said the
British expeditionary force -
which he estimated at $4,000 to
10000 men - was up against
heavier odds than at Dunkerque.
An allied disaster, he declared,
has seemed inevitable since the
campaigns third day, when the
Germans smas he'd through
Bitolj, fianking Salonika's de-
lenses.
2. German bombers were re-
ported by DNB Official German
news agency to have sunk Ave
British transports and damaged
several others of Greece yester-
day. The German radio, heard
in New York, said the transports
were laden with British
troops"
3. Two British destroyers were
said t. have been standing by
since last Thursday to evacuate
King George II of Greece, the
royal family and Greek officials
in case flight became necessary.
4. A curfew was imposed in
Athens, forbidding anyone from
appearing in streets between 8
pm. and Z am. without special
permit.
5. The British admitted con-
tinued Withdrawals toward the
south to avert enlightenment by
at least 80 German divisions.
German newspapers, mean
while, raised . loud cry over
British troop landings last
Thursday and Friday In Iraq,
oil-rich country at Turkeys
back door. A German foreign Of
Ace spokesman declared the
British action was q breach Of
international law, and the press
said II indicated Britan's desire
to seek "a new and less danger
Gus offensive elsewhere" One
German paper called England .
notorious seducer and murder
er of small nations" a
On the western end Of the far
flung battlefront, the German
air force carried the war to
England again last night by
out oft-bombed Ply
mouth for . sharp attack. Lon.
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