STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501 Page 212 · 212 of 283
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501
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210 -4 - ... Other destinations of the British Air Force in the last night: Hamburg, Hanover, Ostermoor, Gelsenkirchen, Magdeburg, Hamm, Mannheim, Bielefeld, Wilhelmshaven, Antwerp, Vlissingen, Östende, Calais, Lorian and Í4 enemy airfields. Yesterday by day enemy ships and escorts were attacked seaward of the Dutch and French coast. Jn Ottawa is announced the loss of a Canadian destroyer. The destroyer sank as a result of a nocturnal collision with a merchant ship. l4o officers and crews found the death, L o n d o n - English, night broadcast. Germany has recently joined Jtalien to find a way to the east. This is a desperate attempt to find a way out of the plight before the americ. Help begins. The German leaders have explained to their people that the war is only to be won in the West and are now acting against their own conviction. Athens reports that the Greek troops in several places the ital. Lines have broken through and at one point penetrated about 12 km deep into Albania. The Italian. Advances are directed against Florina? with the final destination Saloniki, the Jtalieners must always push up to there l6o lm along the Yugoslavian border. The ital. Attacks have so far been dismissed everywhere. Later, the Jtalians managed to occupy two cities, and they suffered heavy losses. Jn Athens had a five-time aircraft alarm. Lufthansa's German passenger aircraft were returned to the port of Dadai. The buildings of the Italian airline and a shipping company were maimed and smashed. The Italian embassy remained untouched. Doe demonstrators carried British, Turkish and American flags. Germans and Jtalians in Athens were arrested before they could be nützlivh to the enemies. All Greek schools were closed. Metaxas het addressed to Yugoslavia a request for the statement of Belgrade. The cabinet in Belgrade tart together in the afternoon. - King George of England addressed the following message to King Georg of Greece: In this hour of distress I would like to inform the brightly engulfed Greek people and my cousin King George this. We stand by your side in this guise, your cause is our cause and we will fight against a common enemy. Hard rehearsals will certainly have to be passed, dovh we will join them in trusting in our power and trusting that the end-valid victory by the ever-growing strength of our free peoples --