The 9450-fon cruiser Averof and several destroyers and submarines are the only vessels of the Greek navy which escaped the mass. attacks of the German air force on Greek hare ours and shipping.
'The ships lost' included three destroyers, ten small. torpedo-boats and the old battleship Kilkis, which, having no anti-aircraft protection and beng berthed at the Royal Arsenal base, sank after being set on fre during. raid.
'This statement was authoritatively made' yesterday—Reuter,
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