STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501 Page 190 · 190 of 283
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501
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-3 Abtailung-IV szangyeriraulich! Gauppe-Randfunk Randfink-undHell4ienst Dionstaebravch! In-own_Verartwortung-gu vorniehton- PR 7§3530-RStCB/ Beric ht e vom 3. No ve m ber l940. SENDER LODNON /English/: Yesterday there was strong aviation activity on the Greek front. Saloniki was attacked by the Italians yesterday. Corfu, Johannina and other cities in eastern Macedonia were also attacked. 3 Italian planes were shot down, 1 5 planes jumped off with parachutes and were captured. Athens "is reported that 2 heavy Italian Kaympfplanes landed near the Albanian border. The Fiieger were not last and the machines were completely intact. The pilots declared that they had not been attacked by flak fire. These machines were also intact, they were taken over by the Greeks. The former Albanian envoy in Athens made himself available to the Greek against Italy. He addressed a letter to the Greek President, in which he said that the Albanian people were only at the appropriate moment, as it could rise up against Italy. Another Albanian leader, Prime Minister under King Zogu, made a statement that the people of Albania would enthusiastically support the Greeks. Today's enemy night attacks on England were of small size and ended before midnight. - On yesterday's day nine German planes were shot down. The British did not lose a single plane. The first lord of the Admiralty declared in a speech: we will keep our word to Greece, the fleet is there, the air force is providing assistance, troops have landed in Greece. The war must be continued until England has won the final victory. No one should imagine that peace negotiations with Hitler are possible. Hitler's dream is to impose on us a more difficult fate than to endure the longest suffering victims. Those who play with the idea of peace negotiations should only consider the present events in France, the constant humiliations that our common enemy seeks to impose upon France. The attack on Greece only shows once again that nothing else on the axis has the right to national existence but a large territory and a strong armed power. We can find in it a courage that the path to victory begins clearly to emerge. There is reason to believe that Hitler is preparing a new peace offensive, which is to coincide with the presidential elections in the United States. It is likely to have the aim of giving the American public a picture of a European continent united under German control.