AXIS POWERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 40, 15 August 1940, Page 11

AXIS POWERS

REPORTED MESSAGE

BRITISH GUARANTEE

RENUNCIATION SUGGESTED

(Bj- Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

L6NDON, August 14

The Athens correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that the Italian and German Ministers in Athens are reported to have sent a message to the Prime Minister, General Metaxas, suggesting that Greece formally renounce Britain's guarantee of Greek independence and territorial integrity. High diplomatic quarters.in Athens say that General Metaxas has rejected the suggestion

A message from Rome says authoritative circles denied reports that Italy intends to make territorial demands on Greece and Yugoslavia. These sources emphasised, however, that "Italy has taken a grave view" and again alleged that the Albanian subject Daut Hoggia was murdered by Greeks.

A Zurich message, says it is,learned reliably from Istanbul that fighting continues in many parts of Albania and that martial law has been proclaimed in some districts.

Unkliown persons murdered Arslan Geines, an Albanian Fascist leader, and three other persons on Monday.

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

Signor Farinacci, in an editorial in the Rome newspaper "Regime Fascista," urged Italians in Switzerland to "use your fists against those who insult you." He warned- that "great events arise from minor episodes."

Signor Farinacci challenged Switzerland's neutrality and asserted that the Swiss Press was offensive to Italy and Germany.