ATTACK ON GREECE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 5

ATTACK ON GREECE

DECLARED TO BE IMMINENT MAIN THRUST BY ITALIANS IN ALBANIA. THREAT TO MIDDLE EAST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. The “Daily Telegraph” says an Axis advance from Albania and Rumania against Greece, is imminent. According to information reaching London, Greece is ear-marked 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 in the drive against Greece will be a quarter of a million 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 Yugoslavs will be immobilised and hemmed in by a successful operation against Greece, which will also provide air and naval bases for countering British attacks on Marshal Graziani's lines of communication. DESCENT OF LOCUSTS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 11. A German general who arrived at a Rumanian Danube port is inspecting strategic centres. “The Nazi locusts have descended on us,” is the summing up of the situation by the leader of the former Rumanian Liberal Party. BAKU BLACKED OUT UNEXPLAINED SOVIET ACTION. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, October 11. A radio message announced, without explanation, that the oilfield at Baku has been completely blacked out and anti-aircraft guns are manned.