GREEK RESISTANCE TO AXIS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23100, 16 August 1940, Page 9

GREEK RESISTANCE TO AXIS

Will Not Reject British Guarantee

ITALIAN PRESS CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

ftWITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received August 15, 10 p.m.) LONDON, August 15. The Athens correspondent of the “Daily Express” says the German Minister for the second time visited the Prime Minister (General Metaxas) and again made an effort to persuade Greece to renounce the British guarantee.

General Metaxas, after a Cabinet meeting, is reported to have again rejected the Axis demands.

The Greek Government revealed that Daut Hoggia, whom the Italians have proclaimed as an Albanian patriot and martyr, was sentenced in Greek courts seven times for crimes ranging from robbery and kidnapping to murder. The Greek Official News Agency refutes in detail the Italian allegations that Greeks were responsible for his murder.

The Italian press continues to rage against Greece and harps on the murder of Hoggia. It is also alleged that more Albanians have been arrested in the Greek frontier provinces “because they refused to act as spies or propaganda agents for Greece.”

It is learned from reliable sources in Istanbul that fighting continues in many parts of Albania. Martial law has been proclaimed in some districts.

Unknown persons murdered Arslan Geines, an Albanian Fascist leader, and three others on Monday.

Twenty Italian soldiers were killed in the river district of Crina.