TANK ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 5

TANK ATTACK

REPULSED BY GREEKS.

VILLAGE TAKEN AT POINT OF BAYONET. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.28 a.m.) RUGBY, February 6. A Greek communique, issued last night, states: “Activity is restricted to patrols and artillery. An attempted enemy attack, with tanks, was repulsed." An official spokesman in Athens, commenting on Tuesday’s lighting, is reported as- saying that the Greeks forced the Italians to abandon a strategically important position, despite a desperate defence. Hand-to-hand fighting took place in one village, the Greeks finally chasing out the Italians, at the bayonet point, in one of the most brilliantly fought actions on the part of the Greeks since the war began. .A munitions dump in the village, stocked with live shells and other ammunition, is now in Greek hands. In the coastal sector and on a front stretching away to the northwards, the Italians staged two counter-attacks, with the support of artillery, machineguns and mortars. Both were repulsed and the attackers were forced to retire in disorder, abandoning dead and wounded.