GERMANS CAPTURE PART OF KOS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 9, 6 October 1943, Page 5

GERMANS CAPTURE PART OF KOS

Struggle In Dodecanese LONDON, October 4. Fighting continues on the island of Kos, in the Dodecanese. The Germans have secured several important points on the island following their landing yesterday. • . Giving this news, today's Middle East communique says that Allied aircraft attacked enemy shipping off Kos yesterday and scored many hits. Fighters destroyed two Junkers 87's which tried to bomb the airfield on the island. Liberators and Halifaxes bombed an airfield on Rhodes and the Ueraclion airfield in Crete. From nil these operations six Allied aircraft arc missing. ' The German news agency claimed that the German forces attacked Kos from landing-craft and captured more than 200 British troops and killed a number of others. , Burt of tlie British forces, fled to the mountains. Resistance was encounterdd at only a few points. The Germans captured all the military installations. “Italian Treachery.” Cyrus Sulzberger, “New York Tinies” correspondent, says: "The Allies have a rather risky position ou the islands they have taken in tlie Dodecanese. These islands, Kos, Leros, and . Samos,, are more accessible to German reiiitorccinents than Allied reinforcements, which must come from the Middle East.

"The Allied position on Hie islands will depend largely on the willingness of the Italian garrisons to assist. It is impossible to predict the effectiveness of such aid, specially when it is considered that Italian treachery recently resulted in the capture by the enemy of important Al-. lied officers.”