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Evening Star, Issue 23725, 5 November 1940, Page 12

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' BATTLE HAVING IX GREECE. I.OX DON. November 4.—Tiu,Athens rnnvs[)i)n(lent of the Brit-i-]i I'nitei! Press reiKiris that the first heavy ehish is occurring between tiie main bodies of Italian and Greek armies and that a largescale battle is developing. The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press says according to Grille sources on the Yugoslav frontier the Italians launched a. lug attack on the Epirus front, but the Greeks held the positions taken by their counter-attack. It is reported from Athens that a. single plane flying over Pircaus in the afternoon dropped a bomb in the working class district and disappeared when it sighted a British tighter. British Wellington combers to-day plastered Bari and Brindisi where men and munitions are massed, also Santo Qnaranta, tfie principal trans-shipment port for the Epirus and Macedonian fronts. HOT CINDER DANGER OX ■HIGHWAYS. Advice that fires have been ' started by hot cinders emptied by .motorists on the roadside from gas producers has been received by the Transport Minister. “ The road surface is likely to be damaged, and the tar seal may even be ignited," said Air Semple. " Cinders should not ho dumped on bitumen or any part of the roadside from which a fire might spread, or near Native busk or pine trees.’’ —Press Association.