BACK IN EGYPT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 5

BACK IN EGYPT

MEN OF ANZAC REGIMENTS grimly ready to fight AGAIN. ’ SOME ENEMY CLAIMS. Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON. April 25. The Alexandria correspondent of the “Daily Express” says: “Back to rejoin their comrades of the main Imperial forces came men of Anzac regiments today, mud-stained and exhausted, but grimly ready to fight again as soon as they have rested." Athens radio went off the air at 9 o’clock last night and resumed at midnight to announce the “final decisive battle before the gates of Athens." It stated: “The battle is now under way. The situation is serious.” News of the Greek situation was conspicuously lacking during last night, but the German official news agency, after claiming that part of the Empire forces have already embarked, added that the British have left only covering troops. The German army, it says, has been ordered to occupy Athens without too much damage. The German radio declared that the German forces are advancing rapidly and the Luftwaffe has been ordered to make the British retreat as costly as possible and to dive-bomb all vessels moving along the eastern and southern coasts of Greece. ■ The military spokesman in the Wilhelmstrasse explained that the British had caused delay in the' wild, mountainous country by blowing up bridges, roads and, houses in order to gain every possible minute before the embarkation. Big transport vessels are being used at the large ports and swarms of small craft of the Dunkirk type are crowding every inlet, bay and cove in southern Greece, embarking without delay all comers indiscriminately.