London, May 4.
Dunkirk had come to be re~ garded as the greatest combined evacuation operation in the history' of warfare, but in Greece the navy had to go in and take out, almost without any protection against dive-bombers, 45,000 men, said the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. V, Alexander, in a speech yesterday, regard it as almost a miracle that in this last evacuation we lost only two destroyers," he said.—Reuter, ber. The column reached the Bardia~ Tobruk road, returning with prisonrs and without sustaining casualties In Abyssinia, good progress ing made, and the enemy's position Amba Alagi is becoming uncom-fonable, A British column advaneing north thas now reached Val Dia, Although Val Dia is some distance from Amba Alogi, there is no considerable obstacle in the path of the British advance.
The highest estimates put the Riallan strength at Amba Alagi at 20,000.
Steady progress is being made around the Fike and Jimma area, but ght rains have hindered increased British pressure on the enemy.
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