Sec ond Edition In the Balkans
CREEK SEAPORT BOMBARDED * BY THE*ALLIES. PETROL STOCKS DESTROYED. MANY HOUSES BURNED. GREECE UTTERS PROTEST. '[United Pbkm Amooution.] (Received 1.20 p.m.) Copenhagen, May 31. . The Zeitammontag’s Athens cones- : pendent states: A British flotilla bombarded petrol stocks at Nauplia, and many houses were burnt. Greece has protested. - % Nauplia is a fortified seaport, the capital of Argolis and Corinth, near the head of the Gulf of Naupalia, on the south-eastern coast, six miles south-east of Argos. Only of later times lias Naupalia become the port of Argos. In 1822, it was captured by the Greeks during the War of lnImlependence, and up. to 1831, was the capital of Greece. The population of Napaulia is about 12,000.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 1 June 1916, Page 6
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119Second Edition In the Balkans Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 1 June 1916, Page 6
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