ACTION BY GREECE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 5

ACTION BY GREECE

GULF OF ARTA MINED

BAN ON FOREIGN AIRCRAFT. TRESPASSERS TO BE FIRED ON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) .ATHENS. August 25. It-is officially announced that from noon today the Greek fleet has mined the Gulf of Arta, which offers easy access to the heart of Epirus from the Mediterranean, and that Greece has notified foreign Governments that aircraft are banned from several fresh areas, and trespassers will be fired on.

The announcement follows a series of efforts at trespass by Italian planes, which recently have crashed in unlikely parts of the country.

Fourteen classes of reservists in Epirus are reported to have been called up for frontier service, and the steady movement of troops to the frontier continues. The army is requisitioning private vehicles.

BALKAN TERRITORIES SOME QUESTIONS IN DISPUTE. LONDON, August 25. It is now believed in London that the talks between Hungary and Rumania were broken off because Rumania wanted an exchange of population as part of any arrangement that might be agreed upon, but the Hungarians were not prepared to discuss the question of Transylvania except as a purely territorial one. It is reported that Rumania is determined to stand up for her essential rights, and the Hungarians are said to be fully aware that Rumania will defend her rights in Transylvania, if necessary by force. The Bulgarian and Rumanian delegations are discussing technical details in connection with the transfer of the southern Dobruja. One point is the ownership of the harvest in the ceded territory. In Hungary the Government has called up thousands of reservists and taken special precautionary measures. Daventry reports. Rumania has cancelled army leave and is sending reinforcements to Transylvania. THE DOBRUJA BULGARIAN OCCUPATION POSTPONED. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON. August 26. The Associated Press of Great Britain’s Craiova correspondent states that Bulgaria has consented to postpone the occupation of the Southern Dobruja until late in September.