Word: corfu
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Finally, on the Greek Easter (last year one week later than our Easter), they reached Corfu. After the misery and death they had seen in the Serbian mountains, the warm lilac-smelling air seemed like heaven. But on Easter Monday, the Italians bombed the old city for the first time in a month...
...Italian Army last week scored a victory over the German Army-as might be expected, in a race. The goal was Corfu, the little Greek island at the mouth of the Adriatic, which, in their solo campaign, the Italians had pounded with bombs and been unable to take...
After the Greek surrender an Axis leaflet bombing told the Corfiotes it was time to give up. Corfu's civil, religious and military authorities conferred, decided to give themselves up to the Germans rather than the Italians. Their excellent reason: while the Germans might someday return the island to Greek control. Italy, once she had swallowed it, would never disgorge such a strategic tidbit...
...surrender to the Germans, four couriers chug-chugged by motorboat to the Greek mainland, put-putted by motorcycle to Yanina in Epirus, where their conquerors waited. The same evening Corfu authorities received a telegram accepting their submission...
...withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days against 35,000 Bulgarian attackers, in which King Peter I, old and sick, escaped through snow and mountains in an oxcart, and from which 125,000 out of 385,000 managed to get to Corfu, where they threw off the typhus, pulled themselves together, and promptly went off to Salonika to fight some more...