London. June 2.
While it is believed that Mosul. whose Governor is reliably reported to be sympathetic to the British. is in the hands of friendly Iraqis, and that Jail Germans who were in Mosul have Toft, one cannot. at the present time, say that the all feds are in friendly funds. states Reuter's diplomatic cor~
The all folds are not in Mosul itself but some distance away at Kirkuk, where there have been a number of Germans whose departure us not yet been reported:
"There is every reason to believe the information published in Iraq that the boy-King Felsal If is safe in Baghdad. general review of the air situation in the light of events in Greece and Crete, estimated the total number of planes used by the Germans in Crete about 1,000, with the number destroyed running into hundreds.
'The parachutists divisions, particularly, Was considerably shop-solled. He " described parachutists' as 2 "busted flush" saying it was not parachutists but bombers and fighters Which captured Maleme, enabling borne troops to land.
TI was air-borne troops, not. parachutists, who were dangerous.
"The concensus "of opinion from Greece and Crete was that low-lying fighters were far more deadly than divesbombers. The officer, expressing
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