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BUTTER
ALLIES COMPELLED AGAIN TO GIVE GROUND RUMANIA But Line Remains BULGARIA CRISIS
Unbroken By GRABS
THREAT Vicious Nazi Attacks While Going
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A decisive clash be- tween General Antonescu, the Rumanian Premier, and the Iron Guard op- pears imminent.
Two Guardisi. were executed on Saturday and three in Filay whule Bucharest has been Hourdeck with leaflet, urging rebellion
General Antoneseu), position is regarde fin Budapest as precari- it is drabated if he will Dus, and continue to rely on German supe port.
it is rumoured found documents
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the Germans the Yugo. slav Foreign Office in Belgrade showing General Antonescu had secretly dealt with the Fate Yugoslav Government.
It
understood that the Rumanian Communists had joined the Irun Guard and are aiding terrorism, in order to weaken the Government. Mass arrests are under way.
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Bulgaria has been
frontiers in the Mace- donia, Thrace and Mora- via regions of Yugoslavia, according to the German radio quoted by Reuter.
THE GREEK HIGH COMMAND ADMITS A= |granted temporary new GERMAN ADVANCE ON THE CRUCIAL MACEDONIAN FRONT BUT THE BATTERED ANGLO-GREEK DEFENCE LINE, THOUGH WITHDRAWN AND SHORTENED, IS STILL HOLDING FIRM IN THE FACE OF CYCLONIC NAZI ASSAULTS.
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A Greek communique acknowledges push by German forces southward" in the Olympus region after heroic Greek and Anzac troops had beaten off massed German tank and infantry units into bloody retreat with fierce counter-attacks in two key sectors.
Without revealing the extent! is still regarded in Cairo as
serious.
Bulgarian troops will continue to advance in western Thrace so as to occupy territory limited in The east by a line leading from
frontier town the Bugarian Servengrade, southward Bdegach, on the Aegean Sea.
of to
In Macedonia, the Bulgarians will proceed as far west as the River Vardar, and to the south as far
former the
Greek
frontier.
as
In the north-west the advance
He was knocked un- conscious by a bomb explosion and remain- ed unconscious for
of the German advance through) before over an hour
Macedonia, Don saying whether MOUNT OLYMPUS, WHICH WIll be to the River Morava. being revived in hos- the vital railway cities of Larissa, IS ON THE RIGHT FLANK OF The Germans emphasise that pital.
THE ALLIED LINE, WAS EVA- these lines are not to be regarded Though not
Reuter. CUATED
BY THE BRITISH as definite frontiers. wounded, his tin hat
TROOPS BEFORE THE NAZIS was broken in two. -
TOOK IT.
International News Service.
In Grand SPAIN Spirits
Mr. Fadden, Acting Australian Premier, de- clared in Sydney yester- day that the defence line in Greece was intact.
"The Australna
troops are
GETTING
FEVERISH
"Senor Suner (the For- eign Minister) made instatement on various as- excellent spirits. They have been pects of the international engaged in heavy fighting and ac- quitted themselves with great situation relating to im- portant military and di-
distinction."
Mr. Fadden expressed Austra-
lians' sympathy with the Greeks plomatic happenings of in the loss of their Premier. Dr. the present moment."
Dr. Koritsis.-Reuter.
HORTHY GESTURE TO CROATS
. Admiral Horthy, Hungarian Re- gent, has ordered the release of Yugoslav war prisoners of Croat nationality, according to the Buda- pest newspapers, cays a Budapest despatch to the offeinl German news agency.
Kalabaka or Trikkala are threat- ened, the Greek High Command | cryptically referred to Bghting on the Olympus front in these words "Regarding operations in Mace- The British retirement ly donia the German forces have shorter line is being carried out nade a push southward."--Inter- | according to plan under heavy national News Service.
Masses Of Troops
Mount Olympus has been evacuated by the British, accord- ing to well-informed quarters in Cairo last night, who added the operation was part of the retire- ment to a shorter line which is proceeding according to plan.
The situation in the Balkans
THE GREAT I AM TAKES MORNING OFF
Hitler spent his birth- day yesterday at his head- quarters, presumably somewhere in South-East- ern Europe.
SO DECLARED AN OFFICIAL After celebrations in the morn- ANNOUNCEMENT AFTER Aing he "resumed his work at 1 TWO-DAY MEETING OF THE p.m.,'
," according to the German SPANISH CABINET ENDING radio. ON SATURDAY NIGHT.
Field-Marshal von Bruuchitsch, The Phalangist (Fascist) | Commander-in-Chief of the Ger- newspaper "Arriba” follows this man army, in a Hitler Birthday up with an article somewhat re- Order of the Day to the troops. miniscent of others printed at declared "Trusting in the Fuehrer times when Spain has faced po- and confident of victory, we shall litical decisions.
bent the last enemy." "Arguments alien to the only foreign policy to which our des- tiny ties us cannot be considered,” states the newspaper.
This order was, read over the German radio.
Admiral Raeder, Commander- in-Chief of the Nazi navy, also issued an order expressing him-
The prisoners will be allowed It adds that foreign affairs must to return to their homes in Cron-be viewed in unity, and those self confident of victory in the tin immediately, the message adds, who think otherwise are traitors| "Anal struggle against a powerful
Router, K.
enemy.'
and cowards.-Reuter,
Reuter..
air and mechanised action,
Despite their terrific casualties. the Germans continue to hurl masses of troops into the battle. ---Reuter.
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VIRGINIO GAYDA YELLS DEFIANCE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The "Giornale d'Italia" in Rome declares Italy will bomb Athens if It is militarily necessary, regard- Jess of British "threats."--Inter- national News Service.
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