GREAT LEADER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 5

GREAT LEADER

TRIBUTES TO LATE GENERAL METAXAS NOBLE SERVICE TO GREECE AND ALLIED CAUSE. DESTRUCTION OF AXIS LEGEND. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. January 30. All Press references to the ihmtli of the Greek leader, General Metaxas, call attention to his great contribution to the comnion cause of the Allied nations. ‘The eminent service he rendered to tiie consolidation of his country have been ns important a factor in the Greek miltary successes as his rare military skill and his robust, discerning patriotism." Commenting on General Metaxas's quality of choosing able lieutenants. "The Times” adds, "There is every reason to believe that M, Korizis • the new Premier), will be equal to the situation, and that under General Papagos (the Commander-in-Chief), who has shown exceptional military merits in a difficult and successful campaign against a better-equipped and more numerous enemy .the Greek army is very obviously in most capable hands. The "Daily Telegraph” says: "It will never be forgotten thfit in an hour of fateful decision, it was General Metaxas who did not fear to cast the die, who rallied the Greek nation to defy the otlds against them, and who inspired the brilliant strategy which gave spirit and dramatic victory to the Greek arms." The "Daily Herald" says: "In General Metaxas Greece loses a great leader, and Britain loses a staunch companion in arms. First and foremost he was a Greek and a soldier. Metaxas dies. Greece will miss his indomitable leadership, but it is all Greece and not Metaxas or the Metaxas regime which fights this war, and Greece will go forward still" SERVICE IN LONDON n AGS ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS HALF-MAST • Received This Day. 9.20 :i.m.) RUGBY. January 31. A funeral service was held in Louden today for General Metaxas and tlags on public buddings were half-mas!<-d —th<- first occasion on which this has been done for r» foreign jktosnali'.)''. other than a head <•( a State, since the death of Marshal Focb..