COMMUNICATIONS IN GREECE
SIR,—I feel that Colonel Woodhouse, irc his excellent Americans in Greece, may have left the impression that we did little or nothing to restore that country's communications. It has been left to the Americans to open the Corinth Canal, I know, and it is they who have taken on the Herculean labour of resurfacing the road to the north, but it was the British Army that first opened that road after the liberation.
I feel that soon it will be quite forgotten how much the British forces did to re-establish land communications in Greece. When we arrived there was hardly a bridge standing, but very soon after " the troubles" were over, British and Indian sappers had made all normal roads fit for wheeled traffic. At first there were no steamers available from Piraeus to Salonika, and the railway was damaged beyond hope of quick repair ; for a long time, therefore, the ancient buses and lorries rattling over our Bailey bridges were the only means of transport available to the Greek people. We applied first aid ; the Americans seem to be at work on a
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