ATTACKS FROM ALBANIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24983, 18 September 1946, Page 7

ATTACKS FROM ALBANIA

Frontier Posts In Greece ENTRY OF ARMED BANDS (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. An official announcement in Athens stated that all attacks against Greek territory from Albania had been repulsed without loss. The statement added that the Albanians opened heavy fire against three Greek frontier posts on Friday and Saturday to enable armed bands, allegedly Albanian, to enter Greek territory. The Deputy-Prime Minister (General Gonatas) told a correspondent in Athens that his Cabinet had decided to apply martial law throughout the country if necessary to combat subversive activities. The Government has banned the Pan-Hellenic conference of the EAM left Wing organisation, which was to have been held on September 27. Greek police to-day occupied the Communist organisation’s headquarters in Athens and arrested 30 persons. The Tass Official News Agency in Moscow has been officially authorised to describe as completely invented the New York newspaper report from a Rome correspondent stating that two Russian regiments were in Albania stationed along the Greek frontier, and thet Sassenoi Island off the Albanian coast h£id been secretly ceded by Albania to Russia and converted into a big air base. The Tass Agency said that the report was evidently calculated to justify and cover up provocative actions by Greek Fascists on the Albanian border.