NEW AXIS THREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1942, Page 4

NEW AXIS THREAT

TO THE MIDDLE EAST - » HEAVY CONCENTRATIONS IN BULGARIA. REPORTED FROM TURKEY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 26. The Turkish military intelligence service has received alarming reports of sudden and vast German troop concentrations and shipments of tanks, artillery and planes in Bulgaria, apparently aimed against the Middle East, says “The Times” Ankara correspondent. 'The Belgrade-Sofia railway is choked with army trains coming from Austria, bearing guns, tanks and munitions, while great numbers of bombers are flying from the Reich for secret Bulgarian aerodromes, which accommodate an entire.air fleet. Transport via the German supply route to Greece, which hitherto has fed Rommel’s rear, has slackened off simultaneously with the ominous concentrations in Bulgaria. GROWING ACTIVITY BY YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS. AND BULGARIAN ANTI-NAZIS. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 26. Reports from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia indicate increasing activity by the Mikhailovitch patriots' and by the anti-Nazi Bulgarian underground forces. Bulgarian anti-Nazis, in recent days, have repeatedly upset German concentrations, sabotaging the Sofia railway, whereupon the authorities have retaliated by ruthlessly executing hundreds, while the Mikhailovitch patriots are fighting bitter battles against the German, Italian, and Croatian troops. Significantly, the Belgrade authorities have prohibited swimniing in the Danube. This is due to the vast numbers of corpses floating downstream.