Heavy land and air dghtini {inves along the whole the front in Greece, military circles Cairo stated last night, Heavy fighting is understood to be in progress south of Lamia, where Imperial troops are holding an area leading Into the plain of Thessaly. South-east of Lamia is the famous
Spartans made their heroic stand pass of Thermopylae, where. the against the Persians in 480 B.C.
The Allied withdrawal to carefully selected positions has resulted their lines being considerably short. ened. The exact location of the new line is not revealed, Despite aimeuities of the hotly contested withklrawal, the Imperial forces have maintained close contact with the Greeks. Relations between British and Greek troops are stated to be remarkably good.
No special pressure is: being brought to bear at any particular point of the British front, they added.
Meanwhile, many trainloads' of
Sofa and Plovdiv. (Philippopolis), Germon wounded are going through according to the Free French newt Jogency, quoting travellers arriving at Tstanbul from those Bulgarian towns Collections for the benefit of Ger= man troops are reported to be ce tinuing' throughout Bulgaria,
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