Crete newspaper

Not long after his arrival in Crete New Zealander Geoffrey Cox, a successful journalist, was ordered to report to the commander of allied troops on the island, General 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 paper the Crete News 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.