PARATROOP HUNTING RESUMED
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 1. How Greek patriots in Crete recently killed German parachutists descending during manoeuvres was told by the crew of a Greek ship which has arrived; in Egypt. The patriots, who were waiting in ambush, took the German j>arachutiSiS one by one, and after killing many of them took their guns and ammunition and fired on the refit coming down from the sky, Several patriots were killed. The German authorities took severe measures, executed a _ great number of patriots who took part in the attack and held others as hostages.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 288, 3 September 1942, Page 5
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97PARATROOP HUNTING RESUMED Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 288, 3 September 1942, Page 5
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