AID FOR GREECE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1940, Page 5

AID FOR GREECE

LANDING OF BRITISH TROOPS NEW ZEALAND SAPPERS INCLUDED. MAINTENANCE OF AIR BASES. I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 25. The Athens correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that British and New Zealand troops have landed in Greece. It was at first reported that Australian troops had also landed, but this was incorrect. The troops represent complement necessary for the maintenance of the British air bases —men of the Royal Army Service Corps, ground staff for the R.A.F., and New Zealand sappers. The correspondent adds that famous British warships, with their decks packed with British and New Zealand troops, slipped quietly into a Greek harbour. The British and the New Zealanders competed to be the first to set foot on Greek soil, and a Cockney won by a narrow margin. Hours before the British ships sailed into the harbour the bay was tilled wilh sailing craft, which put out to welcome them.

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