STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21246, 17 October 1940, Page 6

STOP PRESS NEWS

TENSION IN BALKANS MR EDEN IN EGYPT LONDON. Oct. 16 The Daily Telegraph says the announcement of Mr Anthony Eden’s arrival in Enypt for a conference with General Waved demonstrates the importance which Britain attaches to early, developments in the Mediterranean. It has never been Britain’s intention to stand on the defensive indefinitely in the Mediterranean, although the defection of France obviously created 2 new balance of forces, calling for a period of regrouping. Mr Eden will be more immediately concerned with the Italian factor. He will have opportunities in Cairo of thrashing out many problems and getting first-hand information. He will also visit the Britisk and Allied contingents in the Middle East. Meanwhile the Government is urgently considering a whole series of European problems which has arisen since the Axis began moving troops eastward. It was anticipated that after the occupation of Rumania it would consolidate before pressing on with the Axis plan of extending control to the whole of the Balkans, but as far as can be learned in London pressure has been increased against the abandonment of the British guarantee. Greece thus far has done nothing to comply with the Axis demands. On the contrary it has niven proof that it counts on the fullest support of which Britain is capable. It has long been understood that the Grecian-Turkish pact of non-aggres-aion has also secret military provisions of mutual assistance.

LABOUR'S CANDIDATE WAIPAWA 81-ELECTION Mr H. M. Christie, ex-M.P., for Waipawa, has been unanimously selected by the National Executive, to contest the Waipawa Government vacancy in the interests of the Labour Party. MINE IDLE GREYMOUTH, Thursday The Liverpool mine is i die to-day owing to 200 men declining to wade from the bath house to the mine mouth in heavy rain about 440 yards without shelter. MASTERTON RACES Masterton Handicap: 2—2 Lambourn. 7.12 (G. Tattersall), 1; I—l Trench Law, 8.3 (W. J. Broughton), 2; 3—3 Yogi, 8.7 (P. Atkins), 3. Also started: Master Cyklon, Lind-