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...week's end Belgrade heard a detailed story: the British were rushing 300,000 men to Greece; 100,000 had already debarked, equipped with tanks, flame throwers, artillery and all the paraphernalia of attack. A "neutral diplomat" swore that he had, with his own neutral eyes, seen British soldiers step down gangplanks on to Greek soil and march off singing to their billets. The British were said to have landed matériel for five divisions...
...fireball went up from a hit vessel and we immediately ceased firing. Powder clouds covered the water. One vessel turned aflame. Then the bow sank and a little later everything was covered by white foam. On the place where another vessel had just sunk only a long, smoking flame was visible...
Among the movies to be shown are: "Inside the Flame," showing the production and uses of carbon black; "Embryology of the Chick," made under the supervision of Julian Huxley...
...invasion must be attempted - and must succeed - by June. As to technique, one well-pleased German remarked last week: "We'll take England by employing the same method we used in taking Eben Emael"-the key Belgian fort, which was subdued by treachery, flame, bombs, parachutists, gliders, above all, by surprise...
...ambulances," they said. "Send us back to the front." The Italians entirely miscalculated the effect of the Premier's death on Greek morale. Thinking the Greeks would go into a funk, they launched the heaviest counter-attacks of the whole war. They threaded tanks into the valleys, sent flame throwers onto the heights, and with steadier German hands to guide them, set strafing planes to hedgehop at risky low levels, to dive on causeways, bridges, gun emplacements. For the first time in months Rome was able to announce the capture of positions and prisoners...