Bloody hand-to-hand Aghting con~ tinues fo rage In Crete, where Germans have succeeded in landing further air-borne troops, although on considerably reduced scale as com-pored with. the previous few days. Recording to the latest oMeisl infor= motion from Cairo, 'The battle Ig said to the especially violent In the area Setween Retimo '$nd'Canea, where the Germans are alated to be suffering' very losses. Including the -eontinued dea~ truction by shell fire of their alreratt the. ground.
"British bombers and. long-range fighters are reported, meanwhile, to have intensified their' activity, and to have caused havoc among German aiteraft on the ground: at Maleme aerodrome, There have to far been no further reports of German attempts to land troops or heavy equipment from the sen after the breaking-up of the two Axis convoys by the British Navy Inst week, but it ts thought possible that @ fow fishing vessels may have reached the coast It ts pointed out in London that there are islands in German possession. within. 60 miles of Crete. and that the British Navy's job of preventing isolated landings is extremely
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