MUST WEAR OUT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 5

MUST WEAR OUT

GERMAN EFFORT IN CRETE ACCORDING TO AUSTRALIAN CORRESPONDENT. ENEMY DEAD PILED THICK ON BEACHES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CAIRO. May 29. The Australian- official war correspondent in a further dispatch says: The German planes in Crete are bombing open fields and olive groves even if no troops are within miles. In what seems to be a mad effort to demoralise the Anzacs, the Messerchmitts have a screamer which makes hell’s own noise, and the bigger bombers have wood clappers beneath their wings which make a noise like machine-gun fire. Some of the wounded prisoners had been told that they would take the island in less than a day. The beaches are thick with their washed-up dead and bodies of parachutists lie everywhere. The Germans were magnificently equipped. Our troops have their tommy-guns by the hundred. Their waterbottles were full of coffee, and they carried two days' rations of sausage and biscuits and also dried apricots, apples and prunes, and white “energy pills.” Their snipers are rotten marksmen and all are mongrels when our chaps get among them. The Australians, New Zealanders, marines and Highlanders have slaughtered them till they can hardly lift their arms. No men have fought better in more hellish conditions. The Germans must wear out. They are losing mon and planes in unbe-lic-veable numbers.