The Archive · 1941

British Said Fortifying Isle

"British forces have landed on the Greek island of Lemnos in the Aegean and are converting it into a fortified naval and air base, reports reaching here said yesterday.

Lemnos is 140 kilometres from the Bulgarian frontier and $60 kilometres from Bucharest.

Military authorities in London declined to comment on the report from Belgrade that the British had Janded on Lemnos Island, "(The Germans at Belgrade obviously are busy cir culating such stories to see how the British react," they said, I was recalled in London that a fow weeks ago similar reports from Belgrade said falsely that the British had landed at Lagosta island In the Adriatie~—United Press,

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