GERMANY’S BALKAN CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1941, Page 5

GERMANY’S BALKAN CAMPAIGN

Early Development Anticipated NAZI TROOPS MASSED IN NORTH ITALY MEN TRAINED IN COLONIAL WARFARE (By Telegraph.—Press Association. .Copyright.) LOX DOX. February 14. Germany has speeded up the preparations in Bulgaria ami Rumania and also launched a campaign of threats, rumours and diplomatic pressure against \ ugoshivia. Greece and lin key. The quick fall of ('yrenaica has enabled General Waved to remass forces for dispatch elsewhere, for which reason the Germans are expected to launch a Balkans campaign as soon as it can be arranged. There are indications also that the Germans expected spring offensive will seek to engage LiiLiii) on as many fronts as possible, exploiting the weakest they find. Reports from Italy confirm that German detachments are massed in Xorth Italy. Some of them were awaiting embarkation al Genoa in the'north-west on the day the British shelled the city. Other units are going to Italy over the Brenner Pass, increasing the German forces which already are reported to exceed the needs oi the Lultwalle in Italy and Sicily. Iho Genoese concentration of part of Hitler’s “southern army has consisted of young men specially trained lor colonial warfare. The Italians hope that these forces will still go to Tripoli to stave off a further defeat.