London, Feb. 28.
The oceüpation of the island of Castellorizo in the eastern Mediterranean by the British is hailed with enthusiasm by the Greeks, according to the Athens radio.
The newspaper "Estia" refers to Castéllorizo as the first Dodecanese island to see the sunlight of freedom, find adds "in order to realize. what Fascist tyranny meant for Castellorizo, it must be remembered that Of 12,000 inhabitants of unmixed Greek blood, barely 1800 now remain on the island. The rest have been driven into exile"
Whole communities of fugitives from Castellorizo now exist ín "I have managed to play two rounds of golf and been to the races Once. This all sounds as if we get lots of free time but actually we don't, all the above was done on our free Saturday afternoons and Sundays. We have all been supplied with brand new bicycles as most of our instruction entails covering large parts of the country. Everything here is very well organized and our course laid out for weeks ahead. We can choose which regiment we would like to be moved to after this course.
"I am still thoroughly enjoying life here, and now that we have all settled down things are much easier. We went into the gas chamber for the first time last Saturday, and I must admit I didn't feel too happy about it at the start, but it turned out to be utterlygsimple and breathing in a mask is\ practically the same as out-ide. We do quite a lot of rifle end joi shooting. We get 10 days holiday at Christmas, which is very nice A crowd of chaps are going fo Cal-
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