Evening star., 1942-08-04
Nazis Push Efforts
To Place Greece in
Axis New Order
Occupation Authorities
Meeting Resistance;
Prison Comps Established
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

The German occupation authOri-
ties in Athens have announced that
Greece is destined for A place ir
the Nazi new order" as free
state" and Bishop Christhanos OF
Athens already has been deposed
from his episcopacy by the Germans
because he refused to take an oath
of allegiance to the new Greece"
This was disclosed today by An
Dire Michalopoulos. the minister OF
information of the Greek govern
ment in exile. The minister at the
same time read to me an excerpt
from a German controlled broad
cast of the Danou station denounc-
ing Mr. Michalapoulos to the Greeks
as a renegade and traitor" He
has stirred the Axis wrath by his
own broadcasts urging the Greeks
to revolt and resist to the last man.
The German decision to give
Greece an independent status in
the new order came in the midst Of
a growing Greek restiveness under
the German and italian military
oppression The Axis officials have
established a number of prison
camps for recalcitrant Greeks. and
among those interned. Mr.. Michalo-
poulos reported. is Alexander Zan-
mas. former air minister of the
Greek government.
Slice Given to Bulgaria.
The Germans already have asqui-
esced in a partial dismemberment of
the free Greece" Mr.. Michala-
poulos has learned. through the ten
tative gift of Eastern Macedonia
end Thrace to Bulgaria. whose
agents, according to the minister,
have maSsacred 10000 Greeks in
those provinces and driven 10000
others from their farms.
The Bulgarian authorities are re-
quiring that the Greeks in the
acquired provinces speak Bulgarian
or nothing and that they give their
Greek names Bulgarian style by
terminating them with the letters
eff The Bulgarians thus are
back again in territory they lost as
result of the World War, terri
tory which has played a heavy part
in the development of Bulgarian
foreign policy from 1920 until today.
The choicest part of Macedonia,
however, remains under German
control and outside the gift to Bull
earia. That is the plain of the
Vardar River, running down to the
sea, where sits the greatest Mace
donian city, Salonika. Salonika is
the headquarters for the occupation
division of Greece that is admittedly
governed by the Germans and which
extends south about to Mount
OLYMPUS.
This region is administered as a
military zone for military purposes
by the Germans" Mr. Michalopoulos
said. The only currency allowed to
circulate is the German occupation
mark, which is printed in the mill
tary camps. The shopkeepers must
accept these marks, but the banks
are required, by the Germans to ex-
change Greek drachmas for the
marks. This arrangement keeps the
merchants satisfied with the Ger
man currency scheme. although it is
expected that soon the available
drachmas will be swamped in sea
Of occupation marks.
Italian Troops Police Athens.
South of Olympus. the nominal
authority of occupation rests with
the Italians, but Mr.. Michalopoulos
is convinced that the German Army
and Gestapo controls the Italians.
Athens is used as the capital for
this zone. Italian soldiers are used
as police in Athens and the cities
Of Peloponnesus peinsula. Mr..
Michalopoulos reported that guer-
rillas in the Taygetus Mountains
near Sparta recently murdered the
Italian chief of military police at
Malamata.
The general resistance in Greece
has grown so spirited that the
Athenian radio, AXis-controlled, re-
Gently invited Greek men to join
the police force and receive four
times the wages paid policemen be-
fore the Axis occupation. Greeks
in the cities have cut telegraph and
telephone lines. Nineteen workmen
were shot on June IA for sabotage
at the Canea airport on the island
of Crete.
The Germans have met the grow
ing resistance by strong arm meth
DDS. The drive for migratory
workers to be sent to Germany has
row taken on "press-gang" char
scter. according to Mr. Michalo-
poulos. During the spring, the Ger
mans lured 700 Greeks to Germany
by promising them that their fami-
lies would be fed. Since this num-
ber was inadequate. the Germans
now are demanding lists of workers
from factory superintendents and
then offering the workers the alter
native of the trip to Germany OF
summary execution on framed
sabotage charge.