The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
thumb, making eyes at the soldiers around 1t,

thumb, making eyes at the soldiers around 1t.
 The mother told McMillan:
 My husband was employed at Kalamaka. We escaped in a native boat. We stayed in 1t but travelled only at night. We touched an island, and left in hurry when we found German parachuitsts had landed at an island nearby.
 Baby was q model evacuee. She was somewhat flea bitten but not seasick or alarmed" Out on the decks, officers mingled with privates and civilians, eating corned beef from cans and drinking tea. One said that to make this ship ready for immediate transport, It's cargo of horses and mules had been put overheard.
 Surgeons Kept Busy
 All during the voyage the sur- geoiis kept operating on the wound- ed. They made an operating room near the salon of the ship, and the entire deck reeked with the fumes of ether.
 An anaesthetist squeezed by the Gramophone in the lounge as 6 young officer played T Love You Only" on 1t to the accompaniment of the snores of soldiers, sleeping on the floor.
 Now the ships have come to an Egyptian port in the twilight. They disgorge their passengers to wait ing scoWS, barges and small boats which are ferrying between them and the shore. An Australian plays his harmonica and the bay echoes with the songs of many voices. Across the sea are coming other ships, steaming safe to port with men who already are ready to fight again.
 The men of the British Expedi- tionary force do not feel that they have been beaten, as men. They were small force sent against c force five times or more their su- perlor, with five times as many tanks, and with q gigantic fleet of airplancs.
 The Greeks are courageous and tenacious fighters. But they had spent months in beating the Italians, also superior In number and equip- ment, and they were tired. After the Jugoslav defense collapsed at the Monastir Gap they could not protect their left flank.
 The British didn't have sufficient troops to back them up. The Greeks lost three divisions In Macedonia, one at Mt. Olympus, a fifth at Florina. They fought to the last. They collapsed only when the Ger mans shifted the brunt of their of- fensiye to the left flank, side-Step- ping the comparatively fresh and ficrcelv resisting Imperial troops.
 Maxi Spies Everywhere
 The situation at Athens, from which correspondents were evacu- ated, had been a strange one. There were German spies every where.
 Once a man of military bearing approached camp of Anaz troops outside the city. He asked numer- GUS questions and left.
 Do you know who that wasp" asked a Greek soldier of the AnzacS. "TIe was the German military at- tache."
 Army truck drivers said the Ger mans seemed to know everything Every night, almost as soon as @ convoy got under way, German planes would arrive. he said.
 Our departure from Athens was poignant. AS we gathered to leave with the Imperial troops, men, weeping. came up and tried to kiss our hands. We boarded trains, they cheered and shouted: Long live Britainl Hurrah for Greecel"
 But on the other hand, either out of sentiment or because of orders, the Greek guards at gasoline dumps and munitions depots refused to permit British engineers to blow them up so the Germans could not get them.
 But there was a terrific din as the troops destroyed other material. They had ordered not to burn any, thing, so as not to attract planes. They destroyed vehicles with sledge hammers.
 About l20 wounded were left be- hind. It was impossible to take them. doctors. internes and base hosnital attendants stayed with