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NEED FOR ; FIGHTERSITALIANS’ AIR CONTROLlt;Tnm Off Ov* nrrw■■!»■! LONDON. Thursday.Grin warnings that the Greeks mutt have mere planei, particularly On fighters, II they are U maintain their mccmw, are linn la a firsthand acceant of the Greeks' advance. by Terence Atherton. “Dally Mail” special correspondent, who Is believed to he the first British re-. A a porter to reach the fighting frent. , Atherton has been with the Oreek y Third Army, and on Wednesday waj reached Monastir iJugoslavia* to yPS| .send his first despatch after three fror I days with the victorious Oreck bat- jCft tallons. bacThere Is no doubt the Greeks are o fighting magnificently. Whenever COn-they meet the Italians they drive mill them back, he writes. t aU jBut if they are to continue this be 1 victorious sweep they must have o fighter planes, and quickly. hav“Troop. Confident•'When I left for Monastlr the 'troops were still advancing on Korea. Some of them told me they unjt were certain they could even drtve w^e the Invaders from the whole of wor Albania If they quickly get fighters | M with which to beat the lt;Uve-intJ? kT i bombers.U | The Oreek High Command has appealed to the British Military ™r i Mission In Athens to meet this need £ \ (Immediately. writes Atherton. I' can bear out the urgency of this request from my observations at the y „ font. annL i In perfect sunny autumn weather, El ro In the battle sector I have seen aKe, 1 the Italian bombers cross and cross cor: again without hindrance. I have but _ been beside soldiers who have lm- Bon potently emptied their rifles against a fe ^.ilow-fiylng Savolas, which replied bi ^ with bombing and machine-gun the tic flr* anden “From a staff officer and a private) B; jj. both wounded by bomb splinters I and ,er have heard only one cry, 'Planes, pori planes, planes! That Is all we Vi need. If Britain can send some rfllv rf1 fighters we can drive the Italians ..... he from Albania single-handed.* I?er, I have seen only five Greek cfJ)he planes on this front In three days. Mh lct but the Italian bombers came °verif .-..in nines, sixes, and threes eight or|w ir. ten times dally and dropped theirsm| bombs where they wished. ‘. u“Italy la trying to win this war T nk I rst and foremost from the destruc-|tlon at Oreek civilian morale by( tw continual pltlleM bombing of non-4P miltary centres.Jl Bulgarian Problemhc The Oreek Oeneral 8taff's quar-oi tera are In small villages, with camouflaged telephone stations be-k. i tween Fiorina and the Front, They hJ change their quarters from night .Ito night, for the Greeks here are ,lti! fighting against fifth column nt activity by Macedonian Bulgarian irredentists, several hundreds of whom have been rounded up at|JJ Fiorina and sent to concentrationl0t camps In Salonika.•Three Oreek soldiers of Bul-an garlan origin two days ago deserted a, from the front line to the Italians. ut Next day Italians planes precisely _ bombed former Oreek artillery posi-an Hons tor two hours. But the artil-lery had been moved overnight to ,new positions, and the bombs 20 uprooted only a few trees. writes0_ i Atherton.
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Melbourne Argus
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Fri, Nov 08, 1940
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