GREEK ACTIVITY.
FRONTIER REIXFORCED
ATHENS, April 16.
In view of the heavy concentration of Italian troops and material in the Dodecanese Islands, Greece has sent a regiment to Corfu and is reinforcing the Albanian frontier. All the war materials and stores at Corfu have been transferred from the coastal port to the interior. A Royal decree has been drawn up mobilising 12 classes of reservists. Six torpedoboats have loft for Crete and the Government lias commandeered 40 freighters.
Tho Dodecanese Islands or Sporades are a group situated in the Agean Sea off the coast of Turkey to the north-west of Crete.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 7
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101GREEK ACTIVITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 7
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