The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-30
BRITISH STAFF TO !
 FLY BACK HOME
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Continued from Page D on the wharf for the submarine. When the commander of the sub. marine saw the Italian flag 90 up over Cattaro he hoisted the parli- amentary flag indicating Q desire to barley.
 Left As Hostess
 An Italian motor boat went out to the submarine. The submarines first mate boarded the motor boat and went ashore to confer with the Italian commander. An Italian army of5icer was left on the sub. marine as hostage.
 Italian planes then flew over the submarine which submerged at once. It then vanished, taking the Italian ofiicer with 1t. leaving its first mate In the hands of the 1tal- fans.
 Sir Ronald and leading members of his staff soon will be flown to Rome and there put aboard Q plane for Lisbon. He and his staff decliii. ed to make any statement to news. papermen here. It was learned, however, that two members of tho Greek legation In Belgrade came to Duraz2o with the British, who arc quartered ct the Albergo Del Dogi, the largest hotel in Albania.
 In ell 1e Britons are at the hotel. Newspapermen were permitted to talk with them but obtained no in. formation.
 (The dispatch made no reference to four missing American core. spondents who had been believed in the British party. The correspon- dents are Leon Kay of the United Press, Ray Brock of the New York Times, Leigh White, Columbia Broadcasting System and Robert St. John of the Associated Press9
 Jugoslavs Reconeiled .
 With the German armies In Southeast Europe, tVia Sofia and Berlin) April 2o-(DelayeO- --Jugoslavla apparently has escap- cd almost unscathed from a lost war--a tribute to the speed and precision of the blitzkrieg.
 Al, occasional wayside grave, with . German or Jugoslav helmet hung from Q wooden cross marker; 0 few wrecked cars and abandoned guns; Q burned.out German tank, victim of a land mine, were virtually the only evidences I saw during 450. mile supervised automobile trip. that the German military machine had crossed the Jugoslav country. side In c l2.day conquest.
 Belgrade was an exception. It was devastated by bombs.
 But for most of the peasants, the war had come and gone 50 quickly few had had e chance to leave their homes If they had been in. clined to do SO. They were tilling the fields with OK teams. The only noticeable difference Is that men of military age are gone from the farms. They are German war pris. oners.
 on Q tour arranged for newspaper men by the German propaganda ministry, drove past mile after mile of battlefields where the Jugo. slay military forces had been crushed without damage to the lana itself.
 Just Coming Back
 Tn Belgrade, however, we found the people just beginning to pick up the threads of normal life again. Great bomb craters blocked the main streets. Stores, cafes and ho- tels were in ruins. The Royal Pal ace, foreign ofiice and several other government ministries and mu. seums were bomb -scarred. The hotel srbski Kral, one of the finest n Europe, was Q heap of rubble. It had suffered Q direct hit.
 The governmental and business area in the center of the city, enc the industrial area near the Danube riyer. were hit hardest. Gangs ot eerb prisoners were clearning the streets. There was little traffic ex- cept for German army vehicles, but the people were beginning to stroll In the streets again, staring with daxed expressions ct the dam. aRe. A German ofilcer estimated that 10 per cent of the city had been destroyed. l..
 Delgrade's damage is not to pc compared to what sew In WafNaw imniediately after the German bombing of that city.