London, May 2.
Looking at the Greek campaign in its. broadest aspects, we were right to send all the help we could to Greece. The moral issue involved might be said without exaggeration to be decisive but the material losses and heavy punishment inflicted on the German Army was in any case [well worth our effort, writes Reuters military correspondent, It must be admitted that the handling of their forces by the German Command has been good, They are not hidebound pedants in their conception dt the conduct of. war. The Germans cast rules aside. A glance at their operations in this war supports this statement, In May last year their decisive blow was delivered at the centre of the French line. They broke through at Sedan and then turned North to cut off our left, wing which had imprudently penetrated into Belgium leaving its flank insufficiently protected.
Last month the Germans seized the opportunity provided again by the unguarded flank and threw some troops into Tripoli as we moved a force North across the Mediterranean. into In etui battles~in~ Greece ihe went back 10 Napoleon, broke through the centre of the Allied line south of Monastir Cap and through the hole thus made pushed forees behind the. advanced Allied position in Albania, thus bringing about the surrender of the Greek left wing.
It is interesting to note that the same method was applied as that employed by Napoleon at Austerlitz, probably his most brilliant battle. We must now await Hitlers next moves which are likely to be:
(1) a drive to capture Suez by rei: forcing if possible his troops in Libya and at the same time a heavy concentrated attack on the Turks in Thrace; (2) a simultaneous move through Spain to seize the British naval base in the Eastern Mediterranean. This will involve not only the seizure of Gibraltar but also the occupation of Tangier and Spanish Morocco; (3) and this is a possibility though not such a probability—an attack on the Ukraine in order to lay hands on wheat supplies there and open the road to the oil fields in the Caucasus, These are vast schemes but it is recognized that Hitler has vast hordes of well-armed soldiers at his disposal. Reuter.
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