The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-25
British Empire Will Face Big Nazi Attack
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 drawn frOm the AgriniOn area of southwestern Greece and this was taken to mean that, with the Brit- ish, they had already taken Q new line farther south and east, aIlcher- ed on the gulf.
 It was admitted that the fight for Greece was nearing it's end.
 Reports indicated that at any hour the German armored forces would be unleashed in a furious and overwhelming offensive intended to break through the Allied line to Athens It was suggested that this attack might already have been started, centering on TheTmopylae.
 The feeling tt 4 1. would be iIn- possible for the Allie4 to hold the Germans long, was reflected in newspaper headlines and articles quoting Berlin reports that the Ger mans had pierced the British line and that the British expeditionary force was evacuating.
 Fay More Mines
 London, April 25--(uPo-The ad- miralty took steps to meet the in- creased threat to British control of the eastern Mediterranean today by announcing that huge new area was dangerous to shipping"
 The announcement meant the British are free to lay mines any, where in the Adriatic and Aegean seas and in Q large strip of the east ern Mediterranean screening Alex andria, Suez, Cyprus and Haifa.
 The admiralty's announcement doubles the Mediterranean area which the British may mine. Tn February 1t was announced that large area in the central Mediter- ranean would be mined. That area roughly was 3OO,O00 square miles be- tween Benghazi and the heel of Italy on the east and Tunis and Sardinia on the west.
 "The German and Italian govern nieiits having recently announced the eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean Sea and @ greater part of the Adriatic as dangerous to ship ping, his majesty's government gives notice that the limits of the area of the Mediterranean which was de- clared dangerous to shipping in Feb ruary are extended" the admiralty said today.
 The announcement then outlined the new potential mine field as cx- tending eastwards along the coasts of Libya and Egypt from Benghazi to RaS-E- -Kanais, which is about 100 miles west of Alexandria, then northeastward to Cape Klelidonia, Turkey and "thence along the coasts of Greece, Albania, Jugoslavia and Italy to Cape Santa Maria DiLeuca, Italy"
 All waters within this area are dangerous to shipping and any ves- Sels disregarding the terms of this notice do so at their risk and peril," the admiralty said.
 German Bases Hit
 London, April 25-(UP)-Strong forces of British long range bomb- ing planes heavily raided the Ger man naval bases of Kiel and Will helmshaven during the night, the air ministry said and caused fires and explosions.
 Kiel, the Baltic end of the Kiel Canal, was the main target, and there, the ministry said, fires were started in shipyards and industrial areas. Tn addition to incendiary bombs, many high explosive bombs were dropped and they caused dam- age additional to that done in earl- fer raids.
 Docks and shipyards were the tar- gets ct Wilhelmshaven, the ministry said.
 In addition to the attacks on northwest Germany, British planes attacked objectives on the coasts of Norway, Holland, Belgium end France.
 Two planes were missing from the nights operations.
 Planes operating by daylight yes- terday set fire to e German tanker on the Norwegian coast, the minis try said, and almost certainly de- stroyed 1t. A wireless station on a coastal island was destroyed, the ministry said.
 Offensive patrols were carried out by fighter planes over northern France, the ministry said, and Ger man fighter planes were machine gunned as they stood aground.