REGARDING THE EVACUATION OF CRETE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 6

REGARDING THE EVACUATION OF CRETE

8.,A.F0 Spokesman on Air Position PARACHUTISTS AS MINOR FACTOR GERMANS CLAIM TEN THOUSAND PRISONERS ■•By Telegraph. —Press Association. —Copyright.) t iteecived This Day, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. ■•.. ■; zu- -,0, known wind proportion of Dominion troops .; A e ~e saved nom Crete. it is impossible to indicate ’E.A.U.A how many troops we had in Crete, or r- a/cotN-- slamd, cr if the evacuation has been AU;-',/.• ' that the number of troops with- .■ -.A y,-n, i..--■ j...-. Greek troops. ' ? yh-. Cairo said the air supremacy, which hi ';Oi-r/ : ns through Yugoslavia and Greece into Crete, T m*i beyond Crete. If the Germans carry the Luft- ■; go the mainland of Africa.or Asia Minor, the situation mi; h/largely reversed. Even if the Germans attempt an in'T’.' lJi of Cyprus they will not have the same vantage positions "Two main reasons why the Germans were able to AwM-rablc airfields in Greece and the islands were weather r.-.i,,.;. o-nt and a ruthless labour policy, under which they u-spisd. all males under fifty for the constructing of landing - Neither uar'?.chuts troops nor dive-bombers were as Giia m Oroto as tho Germans apparently hoped they would Tip. important factors wore the landing of troops by yj. fighters machine-gunning from lew altitudes. The ‘a'TA'd when the Germans were able to land troops by y.ctacks from the air. rather than the parachutists’ Hi jnd operations, opened the way for such landings. >. German communique says the mopping up of the rest c< the Bi.’.ish treons in Crete continues. Ten.thousand British end Greek prisoners have thus far been taken. An Dalian communique says the Italians met the Germans in cl-' on May 31.