NAZI CLAIM
EIGHTY THOUSAND PRISONERS EAST OF VARDAR. HEAVY AIR RAID ON ATHENS. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON. April 11. The Berlin radio claims that 80,000 Greek prisoners have been counted esatward of the Vardar River and that the final total will be much greater. It adds that many more prisoners have been rounded up in Southern Siberia, including a whole divisional staff of officers.
The Germans are still advancing toward the Italian lines in Albania. The Luftwaffe again raided the Piraeus.
The Greek Ministry of Home Security announced that the raiders dropped magnetic mines and one fell inside the city, causing casualties and slight damage to buildings. The Berlin News Agency claims that the raid resulted in damaging six merchantmen! totalling 37.000 tons. A bomb blow up oil tanks at Salamis, resulting in a fire which spread rapidly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1941, Page 6
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