BALKAN SCENE

Evening Star, Issue 23665, 27 August 1940, Page 8

BALKAN SCENE

FEARS OF FLARE-UP GREECE MINES GULF OF ARTA TROOPS MOVED TO FRONTIER Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright ATHENS, August 26. It has been officially announced that from noon to-day the Greek fleet mined the Gulf of Arta, which offers easy access to the heart of Epirus from the Mediterranean. Greece notified foreign Governments that aircraft have been banned from several fresh areas and trespassers will bo fired on. The announcement follows a series of efforts to trespass by Italian planes, which recently clashed in unlikely parts of the country. Fourteen, classes of reservists in Epirus are reported to have been called up for frontier service. The steady movement of troops to the frontier continues, and the army is requisitioning private vehicles.

OCCUPATION OF SOUTHERN DOBRUJA

BULGARIA CONSENTS TO POSTPONEMENT LONDON, August 26. (Received August 27, at 10.40 a.m.) The Associated Press Craiova correspondent states that Bulgaria lias consented to postpone the occupation of Southern Dobruja until late in September. RUMANIAH OIL GOVERNMENT TAXES OVER BRITISH COMPANY LONDON, August 26. (Received August 27, at 10.40 a.m.) The Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press says that the Rumanian Government has assumed control of the IJnirea British oil company, with a production of 640,000 tons yearly. ITALIAN SUBMARINES OPERATING IN ATLANTIC LISBON, August 25, Italian submarines, with Italian and German crews, slipped through the Straits of Gibraltar and are operating in the Atlantic. The crew of the British Fame stated that their attacker was an Italian vessel largely manned by Germans.

AMERICAN CONSCRIPTS

LIMITED TO 900,000 IK PEACETIME WASHINGTON, August 26. ((Received August 27, at 1.30 p.m.) The Senate amended the Conscription Bill to limit the total number of conscripts at one time during peacetime to 900,000.

NEW FRENCH PAPER

MESSAGES FROM DUFF COOPER AND DE GAULLE LONDON, August 26. (Received August 27, at 1 p.m.) The first edition of ‘ France,’ a French daily newspaper, was published to-day. It contains an article entitled * Vivo la France,’ also special messages from Mr Dull Cooper and General de Gaulle.

N.Z. PILOTS KILLED

TWO CHRISTCHURCH MEN [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, August 27. . Reports of the deaths of two Christchurch pilots in the Royal Air Force have been received. They are Pilot-offi-cer Ronald Stanley Magee, aged 25, the son of Mrs C. M. Magee, of Gracefield Avenue, and Sergeant Pilot Robert Henry Clifford, aged 24, the eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. H. Clifford, of Worcester street. Educated at the Reefton District High School and St. Bede’s College, Pilot-officer Magee was a member of the Canterbury Aero Club and the Rongotai Aero Club, where lu obtained his A and B licenses. After leaving St. Bede’s in 1932 he was engaged in surveying. Later he joined the Artillery, and after receiving training at Trentham was stationed at Fort Dorset for two years. Magee left the fort to join the R.N.Z.A.F, in dune of last year, and passed out from Wigram on January 15 of this year. He was married to Miss Shirley Buchanan, of Macmillan Avenue, Cashmere Hills, a fortnight before he left for Home. Clifford was educated at the Cathedral Grammar School and the Timarn Boys’ High School. After leaving school lie assisted his father in a photography business ;n Christchurch, later joining a legal firm. He received his Hying training at Wigram and passed out on May 28. Ho bad only been in England about six weeks when the news of his death was received.