Courageous Stand Made in Face of Odds of Ten Rock's Commander Says "Let Hitler Find Out" To One; Anzacs Win High Praise Impregnability London, May 3. H*v a small Anzac force fighting against a greatly superior enemy force held a gorge in the region of Mount Olympus While the main body of British Imperial forces withdrew is one pf many tales of heroism which appear through the terse techni-tal phraseology of the official account of the fighting in Greece published by the War Office.
In this "gallant rearguard action! about one brigade of Anzacs blocked the gorge against two German divisions—odds which can be roughly estimated at about ten to one. This is how the War Office tells the story.
,"On April 14 a small New Zealand tore, which held the eastern entrance to the Peneios gorge, southward of Mount Olympus, was heavily by a greatly superior enemy force and driven back. Next day two. battalions of an Austre-Han. brigade went to. its support. This small Anzac force of about a Brigade fought two German divisions in the Peneios gorge.
"Its losses were heavy, but a withdrawal was secured on our right tank"
An earlier episode in the same account tells of an attempt by Imperial forces to stop the rot, which developed after the collapse of Yugoslav resistance in the south, by barring German egress from the Monastir gap, Only after the Germans had poid dearly did they' compel the allied forces to adopt a new line from Mount Olympus.
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