MAIN ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1940, Page 5

MAIN ATTACK

EXPECTED AT ANY TIME GREEKS MEANTIME DOING WELL. i MORE DETAILS OF CAPTURES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, November G. It is authoritatively stated in London that the main Italian attack on Greece can be expected at any time. The Greeks are now fighting on the western side of Lake Presba and the Italians are apparently holding Bechlista, but the place is under Greek fire. 1 Activity in the Pindus sector apparently is connected with a detachment of the Alpini, a crack Italian corps, which has been cut off. The Greeks took prisoner at least one hundred and captured machine-guns, wireless and other equipment. Italian planes dropped food for the Alpini at Metsovo, but the Alpini have not succeeded in reaching that place. The Greeks are most grateful for gifts. Italian attacks on the Kalamas River have not yet developed. The weather is severe. The Greek General Staff, it is reported, is fully satisfied with the course of events. Greek gains are held. Well-informed circles stated that British naval forces patrolling the western coast of Greece have not encountered a single Italian warship. Rome claims that British troops have landed at Mitylene, Khios and Kythera, in addition to Crete. It is alleged that English and Greek planes bombed Monastir.