Late News GOOD PROGRESS IN TALKS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 136, 5 March 1941, Page 10

Late News GOOD PROGRESS IN TALKS

Reridel Reported On Visit To Athens BALKANS MOVES

(Received March 5, 12.25 a.m.)

LONDON, March 4.

It is reported that the British Minister to Sofia,' Mr. B-endel, has gone to Athens to see Mr. Eden. The Athens correspondent of the British United Press says Mr. Eden’s talks with the Greek leaders are understood to have resulted in agreement on all the most important questions. The Greek official news agency denied the statement by Signor Gayda that British troops had landed at Salonika.

In Belgrade the meeting between Prince Paul and Herr von Ribbentrop is officially denied.

Bulgarians say that German motorized forces have reached the Turkish frontier now at Svilengrad.

King Boris has sent a message to Herr Hitler thanking him for the welcome into tlie tripartite camp and saying : “I beg you to accept my sincerest wishes for your person and a happy future for the great German nation.” Preparations for making Sofia an open city are proceeding. The Bulgarian War Office is moving to suburbs nine miles out and the military schools and all the barracks will be moved be-, yond the city. A Greek night communique states that there was intensive and successful artillery action in Albania. The Greek air force without loss shot down two enemy planes. All five of the Italian bombers which raided Larissa yesterday were brought down. . Tlie Athens radio estimated that the Italian army in Albania numbers at least 450,0001

SHIPPING LOSSES

LONDON, March 4.

British and Allied mercantile shipping losses for the week ended February 23 totalled 14 ships of just under 61,000 tons. Thirteen were British, totalling 54,000 tons.