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GENERAL WAVELL’S MESSAGE PRAISE FOR THE NAVY & TROOPS. HEROIC FIGHT OF YOUNG GREEK SOLDIERS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, June 9. The following message was sent from General Wavell to General Watson, on the night of May 31: —“You know the heroic effort the Navy has made to rescue you. I hope you will be able to get away most of those who remain, but this is the last night the Navy can come. Please tell those that have to be left that their fight, put up against such odds, has won the admiration of us all and that every effort to bring them back ig* being made. General Freyberg has told me how magnificently your Marines have fought and of your own grand work. I have also heard of the heroic fight of the young Greek soldiers. I send you all my grateful thanks.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1941, Page 5
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153LAST HOURS IN CRETE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1941, Page 5
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