Germans Reach Yannitsa, Monastir and Push West from Salonika; Greeks Resisting ERMAN columns crashed through Monastir gap on the Yugoslav-Greek border and were heading toward Florina, as British and German troops contacted each other for the first against the Germans in Northern Greece and Southern Yugoslavia Many casualties were caused when fighters machine-gunned troops and trucks at Dulj and a motor transport column swas bombed near the same place, "according to 2 communique from' British Headquarters.
Two large vehicles in an armoured column were directly hit while a third overturned and caught fre when bombed from a low level, Bombing attacks were also made on railway. stores at Kenali in Yugoslavia and vehicles and troops were British mobile units are continuing their advance south and south-west along the Dessie-Gendar road.
In. Libya, the British rearguard. whose role it was to delay the enemy advance while the main British con centrations were being completed, was heavily engaged all" yesterday' by ically superior enemy forces.
British tanks and other reinforcements in Libya are now establishing, themselves in. strong positions at Tobruk, it was revealed by Lord. Mayne, the Colonial Secretary, speaking in the House of Lords yesterday.
Lord Mayne said that the abandon ment of Benghazi was a direct: con sequence of the reinforcements seit have been threatened, while the hard pressed Yugoslavs were trying to keep open a route of retreat, along which they could join Anglo-Greek {forces in southern Albania, The odds appeared to favour the Germans, who were pushing westward from Prizren on the north. eastern Albanian-Yugoslav frantic Tetovo, farther south: and Prilep. still farther south, with the objective of joining Mahan' forces in Albania, German forces advancing northward from Nish attacked Krushevatz where a big Yugoslav arsenal coated, it also was said, Authoritative Yugoslav sources. also said that Germans had reached the gates of Belgrade—United Press,
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