REACHING A CLIMAX

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1941, Page 5

REACHING A CLIMAX

POSITION IN THE BALKANS German Proposals to Greece GROWING OPPOSITION IN YUGOSLAVIA AND BULGARIA FIERCE RUSSIAN RADIO ATTACKS (By Telegraph—Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, March 10. A report that the German Minister to Athens Premier, M. Korizis, and handed him what f 1 a ” described as “some proposals” provides an indication that, the crisis in the Balkans is reaching a climax. noMeanwhile, Yugoslavia’s defence measures a e pioceedm D rapidly, and scarcely any young men remain in belgrat e Opposition to any agreement involving German occnpat o is o-rowino- throughout the country and organisations are bcm formed in the provinces to fight the German troops it .they march over the frontier. The song “Tipperary,’ which is widely regarded as. the British anthem, is constantly being sung a played in Belgrade cabarets. Moscow radio is frequently repeating fierce attacks in Bulgarian against “Bulgaria’s traitor King and Government Though Russia, according to the “Daily Mails Belgiade correspondent, is too weak to make an open armed stand in order to stem the German drive through the Balkans, she is employin' l ' every possible underground method to prepare a. Bulgar national revolt against the Boris regime and its German masters. _ . , It is known that a number of important. Bulgars who are notoriously hostile to Germany escaped from the country last week including the former premier, M. Massanov, and several, leaders of the Bulgar Orthodox Church. There seems to be no doubt that hostility against Germany is growing, partly because of the people’s deep-rooted antipathy toward foreign troops and partly because of the intensive Russian propaganda. Belgian Dutch and Bolish diplomats on their arrival at Istanbul" from Sofia report, that there are 200,000 German troops in southern Bulgaria, one-third of whom are on the Turkish frontier.