AXIS ADJUSTMENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1943, Page 3

AXIS ADJUSTMENTS

„■■■ -■ IN SOUTHERN EUROPE MM BULGARS REPLACE ITALIANS IN GREECE. ISLAND “OPERATIONAL AREAS” ■ (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 16. Mussolini has proclaimed Sicily, Sardinia and small islands nearby “operational areas,” says the Berlin radio. The “Evening Standard” says the decree probably includes Pantellaria and other islands adjacent thereto. More Bulgarian troops are going to Greece to replace the Italian garrison. The Italians withdrawn from Greece are being concentrated in Albania and Dalmatia. Another 100,000 Bulgarians are going to Serbia, the most antiAxis part of Yugoslavia. Hungary is rapidly withdrawing her armies from Russia to her own territory. In Southern France, the Germans are reported to be rushing the completion of a 350 mile defence line from Nice to Narbonne. The Paris radio stated that the German occupation authorities, in agreement with Vichy, have decided immediately to evacuate from Cherbourg, Dieppe and their immediate neighbourhoods all inhabitants not indispensable. Reuter’s Zurich correspondent says that since April 12 all travellers from Switzerland have been turned back at the Italian frontier. The Italians appear to be systematically clearing out all foreigners, except Axis ones, from Italy.