WAVE OF UNREST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24737, 14 October 1941, Page 7

WAVE OF UNREST

THE OCCUPIED AREAS OUTBREAKS IN GREECE PEASANTS SUPPORT TROOPS (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Reports of um*est in manv parts of Europe continue to be received. The Jerusalem correspondent of The Times says neutral travellers from Greece related that when they left at the end of August the whole of the south-west Peloponnese area had bean closed to travel as the result of fighting between the Italians and fragments of the Greek Army who were supported by peasants. They added that the Italians occupy only the interior of Greece, while the Germans retain the ports and the whole of the coastline. Fires breaking out in German food stores in Denmark worried the occupation forces for a month. Two German soldiers and a policeman were seriously injured when neighbours went to the assistance of two women who refused to hand over woollen jumpers to soldiers. Travellers arriving at Ankara from Jugoslavia say 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 two Jugoslavian towns, Tjuprija and Jogidina. The Tass Agency says it is reported from Berne that Mussolini's tour of Italy, which was intended to arouse the Italians' fallen spirits, proved a failure. When the Duce rode through Forli. the starting point of the tour, the crowd yelled anti-Fascist slogans and demanded more food. Enthusiasm was also absent at Bologna and Parma. The agency added that Mussolini intended to visit Turin and Alessandria, but changed his mind when he heard that serious disturbances had broken out, and he returned home.