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...relatively well. Ironically 'this one was sunk not by bombs but by an infernal machine. The anti-aircraft cruiser and two of the other ships were sunk by steered torpedoes (TIME, Nov. 11, weird one-man vessels of destruction which anonymous Italian heroes sneaked into the harbor of Suda Bay under cover of darkness...
Tiny Freyberg and his tiny force will have need of all the courage they can muster in Crete. The Germans seem to be committed to blasting and Blitzing the island. Suda Bay, a magnificent natural harbor, is the last important British operating base among the islands of the eastern Mediterranean, and the long island lies across the mouth of the Aegean. Last week, as expected, the Axis continued its process of occupying Aegean islands, definitely closed the Aegean to the British...
George's flight was by steamer, from the crowded, bomb-tangled port of Peirae-us. As he left, he released his heroic, echoing formula: ". . . hard destinies of war . . . lawful Government . . . continue the fight . . . resistance to the end. . . ." Then, by night, the steamer picked its way to Suda Bay, Crete, and King George, his brother and his Ministers proceeded to Candia, where the monarch called the first Cabinet meeting of Free Greece...
...enemy's coming out (just as Nelson's frigates, whenever there were enough, scouted the French and Genoese ports) had reported a strong Italian force hard by Cape Passero, on the southeasternmost tip of Sicily, steaming east. British forces had immediately set out from Alexandria for Suda Bay, Crete...
...Suda Bay, newly occupied base from which British are bombing southern Italy and threatening supply lines to Libya...