Cairo, May 28.
A British colonel who helped King George and his Ministers to leave the island has given a remarkable witness account of the German parachute invasion of Crete and of the Greek Kings narrow escape from capture.
it appears that on Tuesday morning, the first day of the attack several squadrons of Germans fighters roared over the King's house. A few moments later they were followed by German bombers which attacked the coast and the outskirts of Canea.
The King and his party took cover. and from their shelter they saw that the bombers had been followed by a great number of troop-carriers and gliders. and that the sky was suddenly filled with red and green parachutes.
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