LAST FROM GREECE
PARTY OF NEW ZEALANDERS CRETE REACHED IN LEAKING BOAT. GERMANS ELUDED FOR DAYS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CAIRO. May 21. Believed to be the last British soldiers to leave Greece, a small party of New Zealand cavalrymen and Maoris reached Crete in. a leaky rowing-boat shortly before the German parachutists attacked. They were originally cut off near the Corinth Canal, and they sneaked about the mountains and olive groves for days, eluding the Germans. Villagers fed them and provided them with civilian clothes. They then found an 18ft. rowing-boat on a beach, and they made the voyage of 140 miles to Crete with one pair of oars.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 6
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109LAST FROM GREECE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 6
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