STILL UNBROKEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 8

STILL UNBROKEN

GREEK DEFENCES

YUGOSLAV POSITION

BELIEVED TO BE SATISFACTORY

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright..

(Received April 8, 2.15 p.m.)

LONDON, April 7.

While, there is still no news from Yugoslavia, the British United Press quoted military observers in Alliens as expressing the opinion that the situation in Yugoslavia is satisfactory. The Yugoslavs generally are understood to be resisting successfully, and are reported lo have captured a dozen German tanks.

A report from Belgrade Avhich is believed to ha\'e originated from an Axis source says that another British mechanised diAasion began to disembark on April 6 at Piraeus and Volo.

The Germans tonight said that they were advancing on the Serbian and Greek fronts after sharp attacks which overcame fortified positions. The Greeks admitted heavy attacks, but declared that the Germans bad not succeeded in breaking the Greek defences.

According to the Stefani (Rome) neAvs agency, Italian planes inflicted hard blows against British motorised units in Greece. The agency also claimed that Italians had broken a Greek attempt to join the Yugoslav forces, and said that the attempt resulted in two days of bitter fighting in which the Italians virtually wiped out a Greek division comprising three regiments. Whatever truth there may be in this report, one of the main Axis aims obviously is to break the contact betAveen Yugoslavia and Greece, and the Germans, according to reliable

Turkish sources, are making their principal drive against the Yugoslavs through a subsidiary Valley Avest of Ihe Struma River to Skoplje.

Britain branded Hungary as an accomplice of German aggression almost at the same time as the German news agency announced that the Hungarian population eA'eryAvhere Avas greeting the German troops enthusiasticclly.