Word: peiraeus
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...There can be no doubt whatsoever that the present Greek Government and the armed forces are honeycombed with the worst type of collaborators and financial crooks. ... In their determination to crush their opponents in the suburbs of Athens and the dockyards of Salonika and Peiraeus, they have made up their minds that a new war is necessary...
...Balkans. Jimmie Doolittle's Fifteenth Air Force smashed at Peiraeus and Athens airdromes with impressive power (300 planes...
Dreams in Issari were made of flour. Small Greek boys dreamed of bread loaves piled high on the bare kitchen table. News had come from Peiraeus that a cargo from the U.S. had arrived on a Swedish ship. During the day the people who slumped exhausted in the square whispered of the day the food might reach Issari. There was speculation and argument: This or that might delay the food; what if this or that road were used? perhaps it would not come...
...estimated that 40,000 people died of hunger in Athens and Peiraeus between last Oct. 1 and Jan. 26. But last week starving Greece had a glimmer of good news. Germany and Italy would allow the Red Cross to supervise distribution of 14,000 tons of wheat and flour which had already been received from Haifa and other ports. Underfed Greek stevedores who are to unload the cargoes are so weak that they will be allowed twice as long as usual to empty the ships. Germany and Italy also agreed that 500 tons of Turkish food could be sent...
...best supply line that the Greeks have had in the last months has been a little Turkish steamer, the Kurtulus, which sailed weekly from Istanbul to Peiraeus with wheat, corn, vegetables, dried fruits and a few medicines. A fortnight ago the Kurtulus struck a reef just off the Turkish coast and sank...