ROUGHEST COUNTRY.
ACCESS TO GREECE.
HIGH MOUNTAIN FLANKS
LONDON, October 20
Any drive through the Balkans against Turkey, Egypt and Syria must begin within the next fortnight. After that the normally Bad roads will bo under 3ft of snow. This is especially true of the. mountain passes approaching Istanbul. A road which .Mussolini is said to have chosen for an attack from Albania toward Salonika is a terrible track, over precipitous slopes. Except for the last 82 miles, it winds among some of the most difficult country in Europe. Beginning at Durazzo, Albania, it cuts across southern Yugoslavia, and then across Greece, by way of Modena to Salonika.
Even if Mussolini should leave Yugoslavia. alone, and push into Greece over the southern frontier of Albania, he would have only the roughest track. From the Greek frontier onward it is flanked by high mountains on either side for a distance of 60 miles. There is no railway in all this inhospitable country, and the Greeks are reported to have constructed good fortifications.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 40, 27 November 1940, Page 5
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