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...reporters, still eager to find communications, headed for the Greek mainland. When they landed at Patras at the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth, they were greeted by air-raid sirens. They watched while German planes smoothly skimmed over the harbor, machine-gunning refugees huddled in a string of open barges...
They finally got a train to take them to Corinth on their way to Athens and, they hoped, a telegraph office. By this time the Germans held the other side of the Gulf and Nazi planes had only a short hop to strafe the railroad on the other side. Their train, barnacled with soldiers on roof and sides, was raked again & again with machine-gun bullets. Three out of four of the reporters who were riding together were wounded, one seriously. St. John says he did not know that he had been shot through the thigh until he finally reached...
...flight from Corinth, through the Peloponnesus to a little fishing port where a British destroyer finally picked them up, was a nightmare. More than once St. John and his friends were nearly shot as parachutists because of their knapsacks. On the embarkation dock they watched hundreds of trucks being put out of commission. The drivers shot holes in the tires, raced the engines without oil or water so that they would be ruined...
Last week the R.A.F. announced that planes had twice descended over the Corinth Canal to 1,000 feet, had blasted the rim of the rocky bank causing slides that had closed the canal "for months to come...
...Corinth Canal provides a short cut from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea. Through it, saving 130 miles around the treacherous, blacked-out Peloponnesos, the Axis has recently sent important supplies for the Russian campaign...