GREECE NEXT?
VICTIM OF THE AXIS
REPORTED IMMINENT
STRATEGIC BASES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received October 12, 11.20 a.m.)
LONDON, October 11
The "Daily Telegraph" says that an Axis advance from Albania and Rumania against Greece is imminent. According to information reaching London, Greece has been earmarked as the next Axis victim, as a preliminary to larger operations in the Mediterranean and the monopolisation of the petrol resources in the Middle East. The main force of the drive against Greece, says the "Telegraph," will be a quarter of a million Italian troops massed on the Albanian frontier, a German corps simultaneously descending from Rumania. The Axis, it is stated, does not intend to make a direct attack against Yugoslavia, because the Yugoslavs would be immobilised and hemmed in by a successful operation in Greece, which would also provide air and naval bases for the purpose of countering British attacks on Marshal Graziani's lines of communication.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 90, 12 October 1940, Page 11
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