GERMAN DRIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1941, Page 5

GERMAN DRIVE

DOWN THE VARDAR VALLEY MADE AT COST OF TERRIFIC SLAUGHTER. ROYAL AIR FORCE PLAYS MAJOR PART. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 10. The Germans' drive down the Vardar Valley cost terrific slaughter,- in which the R.A.F. played a major part, says the “Daily Mail’s” correspondent with the British general headquarters in Greece. British bombers and 8-gun fighters sprayed death along the roads of the valley as the German mechanised forces battled toward Salonika. A trail of blazing lorries crazily overturned and also armoured cars and bodies mark the route of the advance. The British United Press correspondent in Athens says a British bombers and fighters are on the job 24 hours a day, and the roar of the British engines is heard almost constantly as new. big bomber formations arrive and fighters and bombers take off in reguiar relays. Terrible punishment is being inflicted With unerring accuracy as the German mechanised forces pass through the narrow gorges. The latest R.A.F. communique states that in spite of extremely bad weather conditions German troop-carrying motor vehicles were systematically machine gunned in the Kilkis-Poly-castron area in north-eastern Greece yesterday. Heavy casualties were inflicted. Successful bombing attacks were also made on enemy motor trans-

port concentrations and bridges at Axioypolis. All the planes returned. An early communique stated that heavy attacks were delivered against tanks, motor transport and convoys in the Lake Doi ran area. Bombs were observed to burst among tanks and vehicles on roads between Strumitza and Doiran, and a bridge over the railway al Devdelija was damaged by direct hits. All the aircraft returned.

ACT OF TREACHERY

THE HUNGARIAN MARCH INTO YUGOSLAVIA. NON-AGGRESSION PACT VIOLATED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.42 a.m.) RUGBY. April 11. The lengthy proclamation by Admiral Horthy, prior to the march into the territory ceded to Yugoslavia after the last war, is noted with some surprise here, in view of the pact of non aggression and friendship recently concluded between the two countries. The action clearly is under German dictation, arid is regarded as throwing a new light on the reasons for the suicide of Count Teleki.