FEARS BY THE AXIS
INVASION DATE IMMINENT
NEW YORK, July H
Allied offensives are imminent in the eastern Mediterranean, according to reports which have reached high neutral and naval quarters in Turkey, says the Ankara correspondent of the "New York Times." It is not expected in Ankara that an early attempt will be made to invade the Greek or Thracian mainland, but it is believed that a series of terrific blows is imminent against Crete, which would then be used as a springboard for an Allied leap into south-eastern Europe.
Invasions within a fortnight are feared by the Axis. The Germans are reported to have invoked a state of siege in the islands of Crete, Scarpanto. and Leros, and also to have warned the Italians to < maintain a constant alert against an attempted aei'ial and naval landing on the isles which guard the coasts of Greece and Thrace.
Allied submarines and E-boats are said to be operating in strength in the Aegean Sea, while Allied long-i;ange bombers are flying over the Greek coast every day and night in operations which mostly are not reported in either the Allied or Axis communiques.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 8, 9 July 1943, Page 5
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