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GERMANY’S WHOLE POSITION IN BALKANS CHOICE FACING ENEMY. MAY HAVE TO TRANSFER TROOPS FROM RUSSIA. LONDON, September 9. Italy's surrender throws into confusion Germany’s whole position in the Balkans, which 30 Italian divisions occupy, says the “Evening News” military writer. The Germans face the choice of allowing the situation in Yugoslavia and Greece to get out of hand or of transferring an equivalent number of divisions from the Russian front or other parts of occupied Europe. The eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea also becomes a vulnerable front. Moreover, with the surrender of the Dodecanese Islands, off the Turkish coast, useful bases will fall into Allied hands for any invasion of southeastern Europe. Crete is now isolated, and it faces a hopeless siege or early surrender. Finally, in addition to rebuilding the Balkan front, the Germans must establish'a new front south of the Alps somewhere in northern Italy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1943, Page 3
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