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CRETE NEWS, The First British Newspaper Published in Crete.
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$80 - $100
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CRETE NEWS
The First British Newspaper Published in Crete.
Vol.1. No.2. Single leaf,495mm, edge chips and browning, complete copy. Not long after his arrival in Crete, Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Cox, a successful journalist, was ordered to report to Creforce’s commander, Major-General Bernard Freyberg. Freyberg wanted Cox to write a paper to boost morale among the troops and gave him five days to produce it. The first issue of Cox’s ill-fated Crete News paper was published on 16 May 1941. Copies of the fourth and final issue, published on 24 May, were retrieved just moments before a bomb scored a direct hit on the presses at the printer’s shop in Canea. Scarce.
The First British Newspaper Published in Crete.
Vol.1. No.2. Single leaf,495mm, edge chips and browning, complete copy. Not long after his arrival in Crete, Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Cox, a successful journalist, was ordered to report to Creforce’s commander, Major-General Bernard Freyberg. Freyberg wanted Cox to write a paper to boost morale among the troops and gave him five days to produce it. The first issue of Cox’s ill-fated Crete News paper was published on 16 May 1941. Copies of the fourth and final issue, published on 24 May, were retrieved just moments before a bomb scored a direct hit on the presses at the printer’s shop in Canea. Scarce.
