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GREEK TALKS ENDED
Mr. Anthony Eden and General Sir John Dill have concluded their series of talks with the Greek Prime Minister in Athens.
REUTER
UNDERSTANDS
THAT THE CONVERSATIONS VERY SATISFACTORY
WERE
IN ALL RESPECTS.
Mr. Eden and the British dele. gation are leaving shortly for Cairo.
Athens crowds still continue to show the utmost enthusiasm af the presence of Mr. Eden and General Dill, and people follow the British visitors wherever they go.
fina!
While Mr. Eden paid a visit to the Prime Minister yes. terday morning, General Dill visited in a Greek hospital and a British canteen.-Reuter.
Sir John Dill At Greek G.H.Q.
General Sir John Dill call- ed at Greek General Head- quarters in Athens yesterday, according to Athens radio. He was joined there by King George of Greece.--Reuter.
RESENT
OCCUPATION
Sullen Crowds URGENT
Army Move TOKYO
Watch
To Southern Border MEETING
GERMAN TROOPS IN LONG STREAM
By train, lorry, bus and 'plane, German troops continue to stream through Bul- garia towards the Greek frontier.
The three main routes southward are described by eye-wit- nesses as "solid miles of mechanised terial."-Reuter.
ma-
BELGRADE
ITALIANS BRITISH WARSHIPS WARNED BOMBED
The British consulate in Belgrade has addressed
(By A Reuter Correspondent)
SILENT AND SULLEN crowds of Bul- garian country folk are watching the German army move south. Bulgarian peasants are well aware that their food supply will be as much decreased as the danger of war for their country is increased, by the presence of these grim-faced veterans of the Western Front campaign.
Of seven divisions which stood ready on the other side of the Danube, at least five have now entered Bulgaria.
Overhead, Junkers 'planes con- ! stantly bear material southwards, while Messerschmidts are taking up new bases in southern Bul- garia.
Soviet Disavowal
The Soviet statement denounc- ing Bulgaria's polley has not been German police are installed, published in Solla, but the Bul-
country towns, directing the mechanised trans. part southward.
Fr
Prince Koncye, the Ja- panese Premier, has de- cided to call an urgent Cabinet meeting to-day as the French again failed to hand in a reply yesterday
to the Japanese compro- mise formula for settle- · ment of the Franco-Thai dispute, says
an official Japanese report.
THE REPORT ADDS THAT THE FRENCH FAILURE IS AT- TRIBUTED BY POLITICAL OB- SERVERS TO DELAYED DIS-
AMONG CUSSIONS
THE IN
arrogantly garian Communists are rushing FRENCH DELEGATES
were
Capital's Sandbags German railway officials strutting up and down the plat- Forms at Sofia's main station when 1 left for Belgrade on Tuesday night.
I saw the first sandbags be ing placed outside public build- ings in the capital.
The average Bulgarian views the German occupation -with strong distaste and remains un. moved by German propaganda.
a circular to all Britons in GERMAN
British bombers attack- Yugoslavia advising those ed Italian warships off who are not kept on ur- Valona, in addition to an gent business to leave the attack on warships at country, according to Chimara, according to an despatches to the official R.A.F. Middle East com- French agency yesterday. munique issued in Cairo yesterday.
The communique adds that on all fronts in Italian East Africa, air support by, bomber and fight- er aircraft was given to the ad vancing British troops.
From all these operations two aircraft failed to return.--Reuter.
INDIA BUILDING AIRCRAFT FACTORY
staffs of the British Legation and
TROOPS IN CASABLANCA
The presence of Ger- Most women members of the man troops in Casablan- consulate in Belgrade, and the ca, French Morocco, was! families of the Legation staff, are revealed by Mr. R. A. already preparing to leave.
Bir Ronald Campbell, the Bri. Butler, Under-Secretary tish Minister to Yugoslavia, re- for Foreign Affairs, in the turned to Belgrade on Tuesday House of Gommons: yes from Athens, where he went to sen-Mr. Anthony Eden.
*
terday.
Wide Discretion ..: Replying to a question, Mr. But-: ler stated that a representative of
Early in February a consider. able number of German offi cers and, men were reported to
It was learned in London that the German Armistice Commis- the British Minister in Belgrade sion had been in Casablanca for has for some time had discretion some months.`, to advise British subjects with na urgent reasons for staying, to A Government spokesman ah leave Yugoslavia as soon as Ger- nounced in the Indian Council of many started the occupation of Stato yesterday, that an aeroplane | Búlgaria.
·factory is at present under con- If some British subjects are`now struction, and is expected to begin leaving Yugoslavia they sre operations in a few weeks, Reu- doubtless acting on his advice.--
Router,
› have arrived there' in uniform
and bearing arms.
Estimates of their number vary, Mr., Butler added. Reuter.
out leaflets giving the text.
ar-
Distribution of the leaflets will be on a small scale, how- ever, for the majority of the Communists were quletly rected and flung into prison the night the German march into Bulgaria began. Sofia
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prisons are now packed, while there is already large stream of foreigners attempting to leave Bulgaria-Reuter.
TOKYO AND NOT TO DELI- BERATE INTENTIONS ON THE PART OF FRANCE TO POST- PONE OR BREAK UP THE MEDIATION CONFERENCE.
Since the French have clearly satis- expressed a desire for a factory conclusion, the Japanese: authorities are said to be calm.- Reuter.
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