AXIS TROOPS IN BALKANS
MASSING AT SALONIKA (Recd. 11.45 p.m.) Ankara. Mar, 10. Considerable Germano-Italian military preparations are being made in the Greek Archipelago. Many guns and large quantities of ammunition last month were moved along the Beier.-: ie-Nish railway, thence to Salonika. The railway between Salonika 1 and Athens is entirely reserved for ■ military purposes. • German-Italian troops are reported to be massing from the islands, especially Lemnos. Samos and Mitylene. Th. Germans are using Salonika as a distribution noint for the Balkans but are encountering considerable Greek sabotage. Three hundred Greeks are reported to have heen shot in reprisal for damage on the Salo-nika-Svillongrad railway.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 60, 12 March 1942, Page 5
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