Balkans Still Unsettled
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 27, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 26. There have been no further important developments between Italy and Greece so far as is known in official circles in London. Unofficial but well-informed quarters are inclined to consider, the absence of new moves from the Italian side as indicating that the main significance of the Italian Press and wireless attacks may have been intimidatory. It does not appear from reports from Athens that the Greeks can easily be intimidated.
ATHENS, August 25. It is officially announced that from noon today the Greek fleet has mined the Gulf of Arta, which offers easy access to the heart of Epirus from the Mediterranean, and that Greece has notified foreign Governments that aircraft are banned from several fresh areas, and trespassers will be fired on.
The announcement fallows a series of efforts to trespass by * Italian planes, which recently have crashed in unlikely parts of the country. Fourteen classes of reservists in Epirtis are reported to have been, called up for frontier service, and the steady movement of troops to the frontier continues. The army is requisitioning private vehicles.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 50, 27 August 1940, Page 9
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