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LONDON -- British defenders in Western Crete gave ground foot by foot in vicious combat today as hordes of German reinforcements arriving by air widened a break-through in the sector between Malemi and Canea, official sources said...
April 8. When the Yugoslavs let the Germans break through to the Vardar Valley, the three divisions of northern Greeks were cut off from Salonika. But the break-through in Yugoslavia had another, far more serious effect. It allowed the Germans to rush at full speed for the Monastir Gap-approximately at the juncture of Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece, and at dead center of the whole Anglo-Greek defenses. Monastir Gap was not only a geological phenomenon: it was also a gap in the Anglo-Greek defense, left because the Allies thought the Yugoslavs would hold the Germans...
...struck at about the same time as the main attacks were biting into southeastern Yugoslavia, in Rupel Pass. There the Greeks fought hard, using the same tactics of cross fire as had proved so deadly against the Italians in the Pindus Mountains. But the fight was vain: the Nazi break-through in the Vardar Valley, and the prong which had then turned eastward towards Salonika, threatened the troops' rear. It became necessary to abandon Salonika...
...year ago next month the Nazi Army on the Western Front broke through at Sedan, crossed the Meuse River, and started the drive that ended in the defeat of France. In command of the Ninth French Army, protecting the Meuse, was General Andre Georges Corap. Six days after the break-through Premier Paul Reynaud took to the air, told the French Senate of the Meuse disaster, which he blamed on "the total disorganization of the Corap Army." Said he: "As a result of unbelievable faults, which will be punished, bridges on the Meuse were not destroyed...
...budget for the first four months of 1941, approximately 40,000,000 francs ($880,000) of which 6,000,000 ($142,000) was for military expenses. The Government had recently taken over all British contracts with industries in unoccupied France, bank deposits were 20% higher than before the break-through in May, and the first postwar French film was recently released...