Show Senate S Passes Higher Higher- Income Taxes LOYAL FLEET REEl QUITS ATTACK ON Revolution S Spreads pre ads and Submarines Join Uprising Uprising- Br By Associated Press Greek government forces and rebel troops were deadlocked on land and sea today in a l struggle for supremacy supremacy acy ac with the roar of artillery on the broad plain marking the center of or th the week-old week civil war Athens Athen reports of a a rebel advance on led to expectancy of a crisis in the thc land engagement but the government a assured urea loyal forces that the rebel threat was as an empty one The rebels ls were reported to be und under r command of or the son of former lormer Premier Pre Pre- mier Venizelos leader of the civil strife Reports reaching Sofia Solia Bulgaria S sid said i the rebels were gaining ground round A dispatch from K lata on the Greco Bulgarian frontier said a squadron of or government planes had bombarded ten miles south of the border Rebel artillery artiller answered with brisk fire apparently without telling effect and the planes came back for a second raid Many Rumors Many were the unconfirmed i rumors ru ru ru- mors A report reaching London from Alexandria Egypt said Greek rebel ships snips had bomb bombarded rd d Athens itself This was denied by the Greek legation In London and by reports direct from Athens Also denied was wasa a report that Venizelos himself had been wounded The international situation was b being being be be- In ing closely watched Reports reaching reaching reach reach- ing official quarters in London said alarming war stories in the Balkans Ballans were greatly overdrawn although these there sources did not minimize the seriousness of or the thc situation in Greece The same sources were informed that Turkey had not moved into an any demilitarized area although there were WE're some troop movements Nevertheless alarm was caused by and countercharges b between tween Bulgaria and Turkey with Jugo Jugo- slavia joining in with a reported threat to invoke the Balkan pact if U Bulgaria attempts to aid Greece Italy Denies A government spokesman in Rome scathingly denied a statement that Italy was behind the Greek revolution revolution revolution tion printed in London The Turkish foreign minister at nt Istanbul gave cave reassurances of or Turkeys Turkeys Turkey's Tur Tur- keys key's sincere attachment t to peace and md a firm intention to safeguard it it adding that Turkeys Turkey's peacetime forc forces s h had d not been augmented by a single man At Geneva the Bulgarian delegate Continued on fate Pur Two TRO GREEK REBELS GAIN GROUND C from Pace Page On One to o the league of nations said the Bul Bul- Turkish garian-Turkish crisis had been set set- tied led A Belgrade dispatch quoting two rebel deserters who swam the River to join government for forces s as assaying assaying assaying saying the rebel corps of ot volunteers was officered chiefly by communists The whereabouts of ot the Greek re rebel l fleet was undetermined toda today and yesterdays yesterday's rumors of at an impending im Ira- pending decisive naval engagement had not as yet materialized SOFIA Bulgaria irja March 9 51 P P Ac According Ac cording to reports reaching here from Irom the Greek frontier the rebels rebel are gaining ground and six submarines end and twenty wenty ca cargo g ships have joined their forces The cruiser Averoff Aeroff flagship of the Greek navy se seized z d by the rebels at athe atthe atthe the he outbreak of ot the revolt was said saido to o have arrived at Kavalla rebel stronghold on the north coast of ot the Aegean sea ea Meanwhile said these reports the revolution has spread to Larissa and V The garrison at Gumul Gumul- jina ina Thrace was reported to have joined the rebels LONDON March 9 UP UP-An UP An Exchange Exchange Ex Ex- Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Sofia today quoted Greek frontier reports that the government fleet had capitulated Copyright by Associated Press ATHENS March 9 With 9 With Greek government go artillery and bombing planes hammering at Macedonian rebels and General George Kondylis Kondylis' s' s troops ready to launch a concentrated attack on the river area rumors rumors ru ru- ru mors spread in Athens this afternoon that the surrender of at the seditionists I was imminent There had been reports a rebel advance upon was imminent imminent nent possibly marking a climax In Inthe Inthe Inthe the week old civil war but apparent apparently ly the government decided to step in with its own offensive The movement out of ot was accompanied by a bombardment from the he air upon the rebel stronghold of ot ten miles south of on the Greco Bulgarian frontier fron fron- tier ier at a. a m. m R Rebel l artillery answered an answered the first bombardment with brisk risk fire tire although apparently without without with with- out effect on government planes Reports Reports Re Re- ports said this was followed by a second bombardment of ot the stronghold strong strong- hold Drop Propaganda The strategy of at General was vas r reported ported to involve a continued barrage of ot artillery fire and airplane aa attacks in order to minimize the risk of loyalist troops in the attack on the river area Government sources at the same ame time me reported four bombing planes left eft the mainland to bombard Candia Candia Can Can- dia Canea and in Crete and also to drop propaganda aimed at discouraging the Crete population The roar rou of artillery fire was reported reported re reo re- re ported heard on the plain as is the government forces force prepared to meet re rebels on the river front The governments government's present inability to make ef effective its reiterated promise prom prom- ise iso to stem the insurrection with with a a decisive blow kept antagonists on onland onland land laud and sea deadlocked In the gle |