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Operations Going TURKISH
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BAD DAY FOR NAZI RAIDERS
Eleven enemy aircraft were shot down over Bri- tain yesterday, states an
Air Ministry communi- que. Two of our fighters were lost but one pilot is safe.
A second enemy bomber destroyed during the night.
was
The enemy attempted four at- tacks on London yesterday using fighters or Aghter-bombers.
A large number of our fight- er squadrons engaged the enemy and few of the latter succeeded in penetrating to the London
area.
Only a small number of bombs was dropped, mostly in the out- skirts of the capital, and little damage and few casualties ported.
re-
At the same time an unsuccess- ful attack was made in the Ports- mouth area-Reuter.
GREEKS RALLYING TO FIGHT
GREEKS ALL OVER THE WORLD
ARE RALLYING TO THE COLOURS OR. WHERE THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE, TRY- ING TO JOIN THE BRITISH ARMY.
Ernest Finch, a South Lon-. don boy, is the pride of the district in which he lives. During recent raids he.ex- tinguished. four incendiary bombs and on another occa- slon swam a canai of rescue a woman and two bables, who were buried beneath an An- derson shelter. His own home way also bombed, Ernest made a shy figure when posing for -his-picture." (Copyright, Fox);"
DIPLOMATS SCURRY
IN MOSCOW
Speeding cars through the foreign colony in Mos- Cow yesterday bore wit. ness to the intense diplo In Istanbul, Crowds of Greek viet capital due to the matic activity in the So Legation demanding to be sent Balkan developments.
Greeks in London are clamour- ing to be allowed to fight.
youths are besieging the
home to fight,
Greek
ALTHOUGH NEWS from the northern battle front is still very scanty it was known in Athens early yesterday that the Greek High Command was satisfied with the progress of the operations.
The efforts of Greece to mobilise Balkan support have been successful up to a point.
Responsible quarters in Athens
that the position adopt
British Raid On Air Base
state ed by Turkey is that she is pre-
DEFINED
Inquiries in
well-in- formed quarters in An- kara yesterday tended to confirm that Turkish po- licy in the Italo-Greek conflict will be non-belli- gerence though not dis-
come of the conflict.
pared to "neutralise" the Bulgar- interestedness in the out- lans in order that the Greek army can be used almost exclu--| sively against Italy.
Turkish sympathy is solimy
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It le learned that assurances behind Greece and should Bul have been received, in Athens garia make a hostile move it is that Bulgaria does not intend to firmly believed Turkey would depart from neutrality, but if also move. later, under external pressure, Generally, Turkey's policy will Bulgaria should abandone her, be influenced by the attitude of neutrality, it-is understood Tur-Russia and Yugoslavia and the key would give Greece active extent of British assistance support.
Greece. Meanwhile the Turks are be-
aid they can.
to
Diplomatic Talks In Ankara
Naval aircraft from Bri- tish ships of the Mediter-lieved to be prepared to supply ranean Fleet have carried Greece with whatever material out an attack on Malte-
Messages indicating that the zana, capital of the island Yugoslav public fully support M. Sarajoglu, Turkish Foreign of Stampalia, in the Dode- press and have helped to increase ceived Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hu- Greece are displayed in the Athens Minister, yesterday morning re-
canese, the nearest Italian the confidence of the Greeks in gessen, the British Ambassador, air base to Athens, said -Reuter.
their ability to resist successfully, who introduced Major-General Arthur Smith, Chief of Staff of an Admiralty communi-
the G.O.C, Middle East.
Sir Hughe had a second con-
afternoon.-Reuter. -
que issued in London yes- AN HONEST ERROR ?versation with M. Sarajoglu in the
terday.
on
A hangar was hit and set fire and an aeroplane slipway was damaged by a direct hit.
A considerable
FOR REASONS BEST KNOWN TO THEMSELVES, THE GER- MANS YESTERDAY SAID THAT EIGHT OF THEIR., MACHINES number of FAILED bombs was dropped on barracks NIGHT RAIDS. OVER BRITAIN. TO RETURN FROM and in an ammunition dump area, causing heavy explosions which continued for some time after the aircraft had left
the area.
scattered over
Incendiary bombs were also the target area. All our aircraft returned safely.
-Reuter.
HITLER'S
The Greek Minister, M. Dia- ARMIES IN
An army of 20,000 Greeks is mantopoulos, called early in the being raised in Egypt, Reuter, day on the British Ambassador,
Sir Stafford Cripps.
GREECE RESOLUTE
"WITH ALL CONFIDENCE IN OUR GREAT HEROIC ALLY WE ARE GOING TO BASE OUR COMMON CERTAIN VICTORY ON THE ETERNAL PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE AND LIBERTY ESTABLISHED 3,000 YEARS AGO ON THE SACRED SOIL WE ARE NOW DEFENDING," SAYS
The Italian Ambassador, Signor Rosso, is understood to have seen the German envoy, Count von der Schulenberg,
The Soviet press publishes long accounts of the Italo-Greek de-. velopment. without comment. Reuter.
GREEK SHIPS
STANDSTILLED
SOUTHEAST
Germany has no fewer than 70 divisions of troops in south-eastern Europe.
A military expert in London. said yesterday that the employ ment of this force must depend on its using sultable country and the extent of petrol supplies avail- able.
Only a small number of Ger. man troops are at present.-In Rumania.N
It is suggested that extensive
GENERAL METAXAS; -- THE ING TAKEN TO SEE THAT THE
IMMEDIATE STEPS ARE BE-military action towards Turkey
may not be imminent but there is
GREEK PREMIER, IN REPLY GREEK MERCHANT. A NAVY possibility of reinforcement of TO MRS CHURCHILL'S MES DOES NOT FALL INTO AX18 SAGE SENT TO HIM ON MON- HANDS.......
General-Metaxas added: "With the same serenity and resolution Which led us to oppose aggression by aperfidious adversary, we ari going to march on to final *flumph" Reuter
Five ships'nt Lisbon-have-bear ordered to, romain there until fur- ther notice:
Among them le a former An chor Line steamer, the Tuscania, of 16,981 tons, whose crow have acked to be repatriated
these troops by the Danube through Hungary and Yugoslavin.
Reuter
Fourteen other Greek ships at Funchal have been ordered to re- main there until further notice." Reuter.
SOUTH AFRICANS REINFORCED :
The Air Ministry only claim- The advance guard of South ed one!
African troops which arrived in Unofficial reports say that an-East Africh a few months ago has other blew up over the Firth of been strongly reinforced by an- Forth-Reuter.
other contingent, Reuter.
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