STRIFE IN GREECE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 14 October 1941, Page 5

STRIFE IN GREECE

FIGHTING WFTH ITALIANS REPORTED UNREST IN BULGARIA MORE STORIES Ol EUROPEAN TERROR London, Oct. 12 Reports of unrest in many parts of Europe continue to be received “The Times” Jerusalem correspondent says that neutral travellers from Greece related that when they left at the end of August, the whole south-west of the Pcloponnese was closed to travel as the result of fighting between Italian: and fragments of the Greek army who were supported by peasants. They added that Italians occupy only the interior of Greece, while the Germans retain the ports and the whole coastline. The fires breaking out in German food stores in Denmark have worried the occupation forces: for a month. Two German soldiers and a policeman were seriously injured when neighbours went to the assistance of tw’o women who refused to hand over woollen jumpers to the soldiers. Travellers arriving at Ankara from Yugoslavia say that the Germans are patrolling by planes the railway between Belgrade and Sofia to prevent sabotage. The Swedish newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” says 30 Communists were shot in the two Yugoslavian towns of Tjupripa and Jogidina. The Russian news agency says it is reported from Berne that Mussolini’s tour of Italy which was intended to arouse the Italians’ fallen spirits has proved a failure. When the Duce rode through Forli, the starting-point of the tour, the crowd yelled anti-Fascist Hogans and demanded more food. Enthusiasm was also absent at Bologna and Parma. The agency adds that Mussolini intended to visit Turin and Alessandia but changed his mind when he heard that serious disturbances bad broken out and returned home. A Vichy report says a military tribunal at Toulon sentenced to death Jean Merot, who was allegedly the leader of the young Communist movement in eleven departments of southern France. His accomplices received heavy terms of imprisonment. Dispatches from Norway report that 10 persons were seriously injured in a pitched battle at Mysen. near Oslo, between members of Quisling’s pro-Nazi youth organisation and 500 hostile Norwegians. Nazi soldiers aided the police in restoring order, and over 50 arrests were ITALIANS WARNED DIFFICULTIES IN DEFENDING LIBYA PROBLEMS OF SUPPLY London, Oct. 13. Lieutenant-Colonel Dominici. in an article in the "Giornale d'ltalia.” warned Italians of the difficulties of defending Libya. “Supplies are so vital that the safe arrival of a convoy to Africa hap assumed the importance of a military triumph.” he said. He added that the Italian navy was almost totally employed in protecting convoys to Libya against an enemy of seven times superior tonnage ADVICE FROM FORMER MINISTER New York, Oct. 12 Count Sforza, a former Italian Foreign Minister, broadcast to Italy advising his countrymen to forsake the Axis and help to achieve a world where privilege would be abolished by allying themselves with democracies.U.P.A.