SOFIA AS HOSPITAL TOWN
Tens of Thousands of German Wounded RECEIVED FROM THE GREEK FRONT ENEMY PROGRESS CLAIMED IN PELOPONNESUS (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. Information reaching London gives a harrowing picture of Sofia, which has been converted into a hospital town, holding tens of thousands of wounded Germans from the Greek front. The German News Agency says German troops pursuing the British have reached the southern harbours of the Peloponnesus. Small parties of British troops from Greece, it is added, have landed in Palestine in fishing boats. It is claimed that prisoners in the Peloponnesus action include 5,000 British and also four Serbian generals and 300 officers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 6
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114SOFIA AS HOSPITAL TOWN Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 6
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