The Archive · 1941

Bulgarians Entering Thrace

Istanbul. Apr. 16, Bulgarian troops have begun marching into Thrace's occupied region Authoritative British sources here yesterday declared there was no truth to reports the British were contemplating evacuating the British Expeditionary Force from Greece.

Simultaneously, military circles, said that German claims of occupying Kozane, Greece, indicated the Anglo Greeks' may have straightened out their salient and withdrawn about 25 miles from advanced positions which they were. believed to have held previously in the Florina-Odessa Germans repeatedly) bombed _Ko-zone from the start of the Greek campaign, indicating that it prob. ably was an important advance. base of the Anglo-Greek armies.

Kozane. is situated behind the original Allied salient from Tepeleni through Florina to Katerini, covering the Hellenic mainland from the Adriatic to the Aegean.

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