Madrid, May 22.
Mr, Alexander Weddell, United States Ambassador to Spain, today announced that he had received instructions to prepare to repatriate 140 American survivors of the Zamzain through Spain, The American survivors at present are at St. Jean de Luz, western France, a few miles from the Spanish border. The Americans were taken off the Zamzam by a German warship which then sank the Greek steamer. The Americans were brought to St. Jean de Luz by the German raider, Most of the Americans comprised medical workers en route to the Middle East to aid Free French forces—United Cairo, May 22.
Roy Air Force bombers intensively blasted German aerodromes in Greece on Tuesday night and simultaneously raided Iraq aerodromes in an effort to smash the growing German threat of aerial supremacy Mediterranean area.
The thrusts against German aerodromes in Greece served the two-fold purpose of hamniering at bases from which the Luftwaffe was striking st Crete and 0 home-bases of planes which might be used against the British in Iraq.
British planes bombed Palmyra, Syria. "damaging two Junker: 5°52" indicating that the Germai re still using the air route aer s Syria to Iraq, the communique United Press.
Troops Infuriated o. May 22 Mr. Peter Fraser. New Zealand Frime Minister, who is in Cairo at present, said last night that the use of New Zealand uniforms by many of the Nazi parachute-troops landed in Crete would serve only to infuriate New Zealand troops and encourage them to fight to the last to ex minate the soldiers who would stoop to such low tricks, New Zealand troops. Mr. Fraser added. would do everything in their power to drive the Germar im 7
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