CHEERED IN ATHENS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1941, Page 5

CHEERED IN ATHENS

AND CARRIED SHOULDER HIGH BRITISH IMPERIAL TROOPS. GREEK REPLY TO GERMAN NOTE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 6. British, New Zealanders, and Australians were carried shoulderhigh in the main streets of Athens by cheering crowds when the news of the German invasion spread through the city. Crowds of demonstrators cried: “We will win!” to the Greek King, who smiled and waved to them. Half a dozen military bands appeared from nowhere and played "Tipperary.” and crowds gathered outside the British. American, and Soviet legations and gave cheers for Mr Eden, President Roosevelt, and King George. The Prime Minister. M. Korizis, drove in an open car between lanes of shouting men' and women.

A message from the Greek Prime Minister, received in London, declares that Greece has replied to the German Note as follows: "The excuses invoked in it are completely unfounded, as Greece has observed since the outbreak of the war the strictest possibly neutrality. British troops did not land in Greece till after the entry of Gorman troops into Bulgaria and their advance to the Greek frontier. “As the action of Germany creates a state of war between Germany and Greece we have instructed our Minister in Berlin to demand his passports.”