The Archive · 1940

Said Mounting

*Ttalo-Greek Tension

(Continued from page 1) and no Italian submarine has cruising in these days in the where the torpedoing of the k cruiser Belle took place," says Stefani Agency.

Angry and bitter anti-British comment is made in Rome. "Responsible circles" there, quoted by the agency, state: "From insinuations in the British press, also published in some American newspapers, it is easy to reconstruct a manoeuvre directed once again by those whose interest it is to make the supreme effort kindle a fire in the Balkan magazin.

With reference to the torpedoing of the Belle, a light cruiser of 2,115 tons, at the' Greek island of Tinos, in the Aegean Sea, two days ago, British authoritative quarters ha tated there were no British sub-

Wüarines near Tinos, but it was known that Italian submarines had beer operating in this area.—Reuter.

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