Germans Reach Sea Through Thrace; British Forces in Greece Not Yet in Action London, Apr. 8.
ITH Yugoslavia still cut off, from the world, the only news of events there was contained in German and italian reports of devastating a raids against strategic cities, although a clearer picture was provided by Athens which maintained that all main German drives were repulsed by terrific Greek artillery fire.
Neutral reports, however, from Turkey indicated "that the Germans had cut through undefended eastern Thrace and formed wedge to the Aegean Sea which cut off Turkey from Greece, thus preventing reinforcements reaching Greece overland.
Initial German successes in Thrace were confirmed by Athens which said that weakly defended areas of that portion of Greece had been evacuated due to military strategy and in order to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
Athens, however, emphasized that on the main fronts the Germans were fully checked by heavy artillery shelling despite the hurling of mass tank formations supported by heavy guillery barrage and scores of dive-
Furious battles were taking place in the Struma Valley, especially in the vicinity of Rupel Pass, which the Greeks claimed was still' intact spite repeated attacks by streams of tanks and waves of planes.
On 4he diplomatic front, the most important event was Britain's official severance of relations with Hungary iyeeause German troops were using Hungarian territory as a base for operations.
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