GREEK SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1941, Page 6

GREEK SHIPS

NONE IN ENEMY HANDS GOOD RECORD OF WAR SERVICE. MANY AIRMEN WITH BRITISH FORCES. I (By Telegraph—Press Association—Conyright' LONDON, September 26. The Greek Prime Minister, M. Tsouderos, stated in London today that no part of the Greek navy or merchant fleet fell into enemy hands. In transporting British and Greek troops 25 per cent, of the naval ships were lost and 50 per cent, of the merchant ships. The rest were on active service for Britain all over the world. Large numbers of Greek airmen had also escaped from the country and were serving Britain in the Middle East. The Italian troops of occupation, M. Tsouderos said, were trying to ingratiate themselves with the. Greek people. There were frequent clashes between the Italian and German troops in Greece. The Germans there were poorly armed and their morale was low and their discipline poor. Bulgaria, he declared, was technically if not actually a belligerent, as she had invaded two provinces in Thrace, where 60,000 peasants had been dispossessed of their homes.