HEROIC DEFENCE
BY SMALL GREEK GARRISON ON LEMNOS. GERMANS RESISTED FOR FOUR HOURS. LONDON, April 25. Reports received today tell of the heroic resistance put up by the small Greek garrison on the island of Lemnos, 60 miles from the Dardanelles. The Germans began to disembark from transports, which had arrived with an escort of aeroplanes. The garrison fought the invaders for over four hours.
By special arrangement, Reuter’s world service, in addition to other special sources of information, is used in the compilation of the overseas intelligence published in this issue, and all rights therein in Australia and New Zealand are reserved.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410426.2.34.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103HEROIC DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in