A wounded New Zealander told how his comrades had recaptured the village of Tolato from the Germans. They went in with bayonets fixed. filling the air with fiery war cries. At the bottom of a village street the Germans threw hand-grenades into a cottage, wounded the two women occupants. and captured the cottage, which they turned into a blockhouse. The New Zealanders. however, counter-attacked and killed or captured every German.
With very heavy fighting going on it is not easy to make out the posttion. which is changing all the time. There has been very heavy hand to hand fighting. attacks and counterattacks, ending in the British troops being pushed back by sheer weight of numbers.
Reinforcements of men and materials have gone into Crete. There has been further fighting around Heraklion. while the position around Retimo remains the same. It is clear of course that the British troops abandoned Canea. which had been the scene of much fighting in recent days.
The British Navy has prevented further attempts by enemy troops to land by sea in Crete. The "Giornale d'Italia" reported that Italian troops had been landed in eastern Crete. The paper did not say how the Italians got there.
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