FEARS OF INVASION
BY GERMANS IN GREECE ALL COMMUNICATIONS CUT. THREAT TO LEAVE COUNTRY IN- RUINS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. The Germans, fearing an Allied invasion, have cut all Greek communications with the outside world, says the “Daily Telegraph's” Istanbul correspondent. A real reign of terror exists. • The prisons overflow with arrested persons. The Germans say that if they are obliged to do so, they will abandon Greece in ruins. The British United Press correspondent at Ankara reports that the Italians have started evacuating people of Turkish and Greek origin from the Dodecanese Islands. They are paying particular attention to Greeks, who would be a possible fifth column in the event of an allied attack. MARTIAL LAW THROUGHOUT HOLLAND. PROCLAIMED BY NAZI COMMISSIONER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) RUGBY, May 9. Martial law throughout Holland has been declared by Seyss Inquart, 'Reich Commissar for the Netherlands. News of this decree, which came into force on May 1, has only just reached Dutch circles in London.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1943, Page 4
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