RESISTANCE IN GREECE

Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 5

RESISTANCE IN GREECE

FRAGMENTS OF ARMY FIGHT ITALIANS PEASANTS GIVE SUPPORT (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. Reports of unrest in many parts of Europe continue to be received. The Jerusalem correspondent of The Times says that neutral travellers from Greece related that when they left at the end of August the whole southwest of the Peloponnese was closed to travel as the result of fighting between the Italians and fragments of the Greek Army who were supported by the peasants. They added that the Italians occupy only the interior of Greece while the Germans retain the ports and the whole coastline. 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 two women who refused to hand over woollen jumpers to soldiers.

Travellers arriving at Ankara from Yugoslavia say Germans are patrolling by plane the railway between Bel-

grade and Sofia to prevent sabotage. The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter says 30 communists were shot in the two Yugoslavian towns of Tjuprija and Jogidina. The Tass News Agency (Moscow) 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 II Duce rode through Forli, the starting point of the tour, the crowd yelled antifascist slogans and demanded more food. Enthusiasm was also absent at Bologna and Parma. The Tass Agency adds that Mussolini intended to visit Turin and Alessandria, but changed his mind when he heard that serious disturbances had broken out and returned home. RUMANIANS ARRESTED Moscow radio reports from Istanbul that 10 soldiers, including two members of his personal guard, have been arrested for an attempt to kill General lon Antonescu, the Rumanian dictator. Swiss radio says that a court-martial at Travnik in Bosnia sentenced to death 24 communists. The sentences of 11 of them were commuted to imprisonment for five years. A Jew and a student have been shot in Serajevo for communist propaganda. A man, when asked in a street in the Croatian capital of Zagreb for his identity card, drew a revolver, shot a policeman, wounded another policeman and then wounded a soldier, who pursued the man and finally killed him. A military tribunal at Toulon sentenced to death Jean Merot, who was allegedly the leader of the Young Communist Movement in 11 departments of southern France. His accomplices received heavy terms of imprisonment.