Greece, attacked by Italy after buying rejected Italian demands for unconditional surrender of Greek territories, today appealed to Britain for military aid, Wellsinformed quarters said_ that Britain's fulfilment of her guarantee to come to the support of Greece if she were attacked was a certainty.
London newspapers, including "The "Times," have been anticipating Bute ish occupation of Crete and other strategic Greek islands if Italy moved against Greece. They reported that this would be a simple operation, the British Fleet controls the east~ ern Mediterranean.
Tt was not known here early today whether the British would go further than to land forces at Salonika, which would be the supposed chief soot of the Italian thrust' from Albania, "Into British Hands"
The first renetion in some Balkan quarters. here. was that Premier Benito Mussolini had played into the British hands by giving the British an excuse to occupy Crete and the Aegean Sea Islands which not nly, guard the approaches to, the Dardnelles but which might provide bases whence the British could bomb Rumanian oil fields.
Prior to reports of Italian forces outering Greece, the Foreign OMice Koved a statement saying, "News reaching oficial circles in' London confirms the report that at 3 am. the "Minister to Athens had pre-fan ultimatum to the Greek Government expiring at 6 a.m.
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