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203 Division IV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for the personal broadcasting and Helldienst Loaaqoe 0 To destroy immediately on your own responsibility! Test. - No. /§ 353c RStGB/. pn' B e r i c h t e of 29 October 1940. /.4/0.40 SENDER LONDON /English/: The Greek troops still resisted along the whole border. In today's ital. It is said that the Italian troops have to fight with the difficult weather conditions. The mood of the Greek troops is excellent. Athens had a quiet night, without air attacks. The crowd cheered until late night to the lorries which the troops brought to the border. All the reports from Athens report the astonishing calm of the population in the face of the raid. Nothing has yet to be noticed about the movement of a 5th column and the determination of the people has only been doubled by the air raids. The Greek Ministry of Public Security issued a report stating that during the air raids on Patras 5o people were killed and looe injured. People in the streets left it to cover before the bombs began to fall. Patras is the city of Greece, in which most Italians live, and it is not 5ooo. At the Greek embassy in London many of the Greeks living in England have already registered to participate in the fight. Also at the Greek consulate in Istambul numerous young Greeks register and want to be brought immediately to Greece to participate. Today already 6oo Greeks departed from there to Greece. The Greeks in Canada will join the British Army. The first Lord of the British Admiralty, Alexander, declared that the British Fleet has already begun its relief operation for Greece. I can assure our friends in Greece and the United States that the brit. Fleet will gladly provide Greece with any assistance that is in our power. The Italian attack on Greece is a repetition of the dagger in the back, which it led against France. - The minister then mentioned the excellent work done by the British Plotte in recent months in the Mediterranean. A large number of enemy submarines, destroyers and cruisers were sunk here, despite the great difficulties created by the passivity of the Italian fleet, which for a long time was hidden in the ports, for this activity. By the disappearance of the French fleet the situation for the British fleet has been extremely difficult and the British navy has become very difficult. Ships are forced to stay at sea longer than at any time the British fleet history was. - Alexander also spoke of his satisfaction about the -2-