FIGHTING IN CRETE
FAIRLY STRENUOUS
HAZARDS OF ENEMY SEA LANDINGS
NAVAL ACTIVITY
(Rec. 2,40 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. Military circles in Cairo said late tonight that fairly strenuous fighting is still going on in Crete.
It is learned in London that the Germans have not attempted to make naval landings but have attempted landing from small boats. The places where such 'landings are. possible are well known to the British, who have been there for months, and to the Greek Command, making successful landings on any large scale most hazardous.
German reports suggest that strong British naval forces are active in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.
The German radio claimed that bombers made direct hits on a battleship, five cruisers, and a destroyer west of Crete.—U.P.A.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19410522.2.98
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 10
Word Count
127FIGHTING IN CRETE Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in