Authoritative military quarters said Axis propaganda already hod started talking about withdrawal of Imperial troops from Greece but that "obviously there could. be no truth in such fantastic reports since had been announced from Athens that fresh troops were being sent to reinforce those already there."
"While the general situation in the Mediterranean' was regarded as jeerious, it was not considered grave and there are some satisfactory aseet to it," authoritative sources said. United Press. from Alexanderopolis to the Struma River, reliable Bulgarian sources here seid today.
Turkish political quarters agreed that the Bulgarian action constituted aggression. They indicated, however. that the official explanation of noninterference to aid Greece under the terms of the Balkan entente would bbe that the entente was dissolved de facto when Rumania adhered to the Tripartite pact—United Press. garrisons have been covering the withdrawal from Western Thrace, Col, Conto Leon, Acting Military facie to the Greek Legation "in London, said that whatever may be the fate of these garrisons "their sacrifice will not be in vain, Not only have they written one of the most brilliant pages in Greek military his tory but they have also for "many ays blocked the routes into Eastern Macedonia'
Col, Leon added that it was a mis. tuke to regard the occupation of Western Thrace as a military feat (or the district was evacuated, not defended, Ins defence would ' only
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