Wairarapa Times-Age TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941. NEW ZEALANDERS IN GREECE.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1941, Page 4

Wairarapa Times-Age TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941. NEW ZEALANDERS IN GREECE.

PUMOUIIS lhal have been afloat for weeks—rumours in this 1 instance based eliieliy, perhaps, on an intelligent anticipation o f even f s — W ere confirmed by the Prime Minister's announcement yesterday that New Zealand troops, in company with others'from Australia and Great Britain, had landed in Greece, “to stand in line with the soldiers of our brave ally in their defence of their native soil.” The transfer of a considerable part of the Army of the Nile to Greece is justly described as a new and striking proof ol British naval supremacy in 1 n<‘ Mediterranean. At the same lime, it accounts for the British withdrawal from Benghazi, though it need not be supposed that the broad margin of security for Egypt and the Suez (.anal established by'the victories of the British Imperial forces in Libya has been narrowed at all dangerously. 11 will not be regarded in this coiiniry as a mailer lor rejoicing that the Hower of our manhood is to play its part in a campaign which promises, in the words oi one commentator, to be “hard, dangerous and difficult,” but the members of cur fighting forces and their kinsfolk who follow their fortunes with anxious interest are likely to be of one mind in holding that in the Balkans a necessary and important contribution will be made to the I ask of cleansing the world of the foulness ol Nazi barbarism. Willi inconsiderable exceptions, the people of New Zealand are united in a belief that there can be neither peace nor security for llieir own or other free nations until an end has been made of Nazism and all that it stands lor. Now Zealanders certainly will echo, 100, the confidence expressed by the Prime Minister “that the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Eoree will add lustre to the laurels earned by its famous predecessor.