THE NEXT VICTIM?
MENACE TO GREECE ITALIAN TROOPS USED AIR AND NAYAL BASES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Oct. 12, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11 The Daily Telegraph says an Axis advance from Albania and Rumania against Greece is imminent. According to information reaching London Greece is earmarked as the next Axis victim, as a preliminary to larger operations in the Mediterranean and the monopolisation of the petrol resources of the Middle East. The main force of the drive against Greece will be 250,000 Italian troops massed on the Albanian frontier, a German corps simultaneously descending from Rumania. The Axis does not intend a direct attack against Yugoslavia, because the Yoguslavs will be immobilised and hemmed in by a successful operation in Greece, which also provide air and naval bases for countering British attacks on Marshal Graziani’s lines of communication.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 7
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