STIFFER RESISTANCE AT SOME POINTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1940, Page 5

STIFFER RESISTANCE AT SOME POINTS

Particularly on Northern Front STRONG POSITIONS HELD ON ROAD TO ELBASAN THREAT TO ENEMY FLANK IN COASTAL AREA The Italian troops which evacuated Arg’yrokastron, a 8.8. C. broadcast states, are retiring by the coastal road to another position twenty miles to the north-west. The Greek forces are moving forward cautiously in this area, meeting a stiffened resistance by the Italian rearguards. From Santi Quaranta the > Italians are also making for the coast, but their flank is threatened by a Greek turning movement. On the northern front, near the Yugoslav frontier, the Greeks are meeting with a desperate resistance by picked Italian troops, established in formidable positions which must be ■ stormed before the way to Elbasan will be opened to the Greeks. The Greek Press is still commenting on the exposure in the White Paper of Italy’s deliberately prepared plans of aggression. It has been established that the attack on Greece had 1 been decided upon in April of last year, though in the months that followed acts of provocation and aggression alternated with Italian assurances of pacific intent. The determination of the Greek Government to do everything in its power to ■' maintain strict neutrality is shown in the fact that many acts of Italian provocation were kept secret.