Show I AIlS ADVANCE 50 MILES IN N GREECE Budapest Reports Yugoslav Appeal for Armistice TIRANA o 0 f YUGOSLAVIA ELBASANI D TOLJA L ALBANIA FRESt A VERIA ALONA IA KLISURA KASTORIA lj li e KOZANE o 0 KATERIN E CHIMARA M A P s 's MT tt tt t PORT r EDDA J GREECE 50 p Q ISA MILES I With ith t the spearhead ie of the German offensive at t l Kozane the thc German Gelman high higl comm command nd T Tuesday Tues Tuesday Tues Tues- es' es day claimed a mile 50 thrust into Greece as Italians renewed pressure in the west 1 Italians claimed the recapture of 2 Z A German column sweeping past was vas reported at Kozane 3 Germans reported report report- ed they had crossed the river north of Veria in a drive against British occupying positions near Mount Ol Olympus I Germ Germans ns Capture Blast Left Flank By Associated Press Official quarters in Budapest declared late Tuesday that Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yu Yu- had asked for an armistice armistice armistice armi armi- stice even as Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg legions scored a 50 mile advance into Greece near and captured the key town of in a sweep down own from the gap Berlin earlier had said it had no knowledge Yugoslavia had sued for peace and London scoffed at atit atit atit it as a typical piece of Goebbels propaganda Istanbul dispatches said political talks of an undisclosed nature were under way between soviet Russia and Turkey newly bonded in a pact British Seize Nazis In north Africa the British announced announced announced an an- that Germans were taken prisoner more than slain and 15 axis tanks destroyed by counterattacking British troops under at Libyan port The British and Greeks admitted they had been forced to fall back to new defense lines in northern Greece Hitler's high command reported that nazi troops occupied Ptole- Ptole mais and near-by near Kozane 40 miles south of the Yugoslav Albanian-Yugoslav border junction Near 30 British armored cars were reported destroyed destroyed de de- In Yugoslavia the high command said German and Italian troops were speeding the pursuit and encirclement of remnants of the Serb army which was said to be putting up localized resistance inthe inthe in inthe the sector British Report Flank Holds HoldsOn HoldsOn On the right flank the British announced better success in stemming stemming stemming stem stem- ming the nazi onslaught British troops were said to have hurled back a series of assaults by German panzer anzer columns In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Mount Olympus sector in eastern eastern eastern east east- ern Greece Athens dispatches said the nazis nazi were advancing into the Aegean kingdom on the left after occupyIng occupying occupy occupy- ing the northernmost I hinge of the old allied defense line Continued on Pale Page Two Column SIx SU Nazis Capture Advance 50 Miles Continued from Page One and that the Greeks were battling the Germans near In Rame Rome Italian newspaper circles cirdes cir cir- cir cir- des cles received a Berlin BerUn report that Yugoslavia had asked for an armistice armistice armistice armi armi- stice with the axis There was no immediate official confirmation Countering British claims of having repulsed nazi thrusts in the Mount Mount Olympus sector Hitler's high command declared German forces were pursuing the British in retreat south of British rearguards were pictured as attempting to slow the nazi steamroller by extensive tion The Germans said said- they had crossed the river in the Veria Verla sector 40 miles southwest of Salor ka The Greek high command acknowledged the Germans were advancing in the center toward two towns 40 miles inside Greece Greece- Kozane and south south of the Albar Albanian an and Yugoslav frontiers and 30 miles south of A Reuters British news agency dispatch said that the Germans I were moving also toward Klisura Albanian town near on the Greek western front The Greek high command said Greek forces had withdrawn from the Koritza sector in southeast Albania and that the enemy discovered the withdrawal 24 hours after it began and sought in vain to hinder it by pushing for- for war l motorcyclists Premier Mussolini's high command command com corn mand asserted the Italian Ninth army after taking Co was driving on toward Greece through a gap torn in the western half of the allied defense line Authorized quarters in Berlin declared the German high command com corn I mand through observations observations observations had discovered undisputable proof that the British were preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring a hasty retreat from Greece behavior is the most shameful crime ever perpetrated on an ally the nazis said I The London radio however declared declared de de- de- de dared that strong British reinforcements reinforcements reinforcements rein rein- are now moving up to front lines in Greece On the North African battlefront battlefront battlefront battle- battle front thousands of British im imperial im- im penal troops released from im-I im the East African front were reported speeding to the defense of Egypt mechanized in a race with axis columns driving into the ancient land of the Pharaohs toward the Suez canal The Italian German-Italian counter offensive offensive of or raised the possibility that Egypt Britain's nonbelligerent aly al ally ally al- al ly might soon be drawn into the war In a secret session the Egyptian chamber of deputies ratified an agreement reached between the I government and British ties The nature of the agreement was not disclosed The vanguard of the axis expeditionary expeditionary expeditionary forces in north Africa was reported pressing deeper into Egypt after capturing Salum just inside the border from Libya Fate Uncertain The fate of the trapped British garrison at remained uncertain uncertain uncertain un un- un- un certain but London officials said that between and German prisoners had been seized in a British counterattack and that 12 axis planes had been shot down over the Libyan fortress The German press declared tons of British supply ships and transports had been sunk or damaged by German dive bombers in attacks on Piraeus the port of Athens It was implied the ships had been brought up to take British British British Brit Brit- ish forces out of Greece |