Italian planes on Wednesday bombed Larissa, dropping bombs around the municipal hospital and killing several women and seven children, according to the Ministry of Public Security communique reported yesterday on the Athens radio, "During a raid on Pyratheas, 9 house ina working district was hit, causing 31 casualties and 20 killed," the announcement sald—United Press. rolled 100 feet without being damaged. Hot winds blew a blanket of sand over the convoy, Month Long Patrol Patrols separated, each setting of a 1,000-mile reconnaissance into different parts of enemy territory. Nothing was heard from them at General Headquarters for a month. Then three bands of bearded, unwashed, but _exultant "rumlans* oppeared in Cairo with a batch of Tiallan prisoners and bags of captured documents.
One patrol had examined all roads teading to Koufra, penetrated 350 miles into Libya and held up columns of enemy lorries in the best highway man style, The haul included official mail for, Koufra, containing enough information to reveal all. dispositions fof the enemy im the inner desert] second party. had crossed the desert south-west of Koufra, travelled long an ancient caravan route and made contact with a free French outpost in: Chad territory.
'A third patrol had visited the mountain of Uwelnat and destroyed enemy bombers and a large dump of petrol—Reuter.
Said in Bulgaria "Berne, Feb. 14.
Probably 20000" German troops at present are in Bulgaria, with others arriving in a steady stream, Bulgarian Janded in Bulgaria were considered a wide exaggeration, although it was believed it would ¢ only a question fof time before such high totals were 'A Government spokesman at Sofa Alseussing reports that 1,000 German planes had landed and' taken over Bulgarian airfields, said yesterday it was "useless again to deny such fantastic reports."
'Observers at Bucharest believea that' further German mechanized movements in the Balkans at present were stalled beesuse of bad roads and pointed out that horses were creasingly appearing in Rumania, probably to replace much of the mechanized machinery.
Movement across the Danube, re~ ports from Bucharest said, also has been impossible for several days because of ce floes—United Press.
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