CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
ITALIANS MOWED DOWN.
PURSUED INTO ALBANIA.
(Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 31
The Italians again bombed Patras, also Navtaktos, on the Gulf of Corinth. Nine were killed. Two buildings were,,destroyed. . Fifty Italian war prisoners have arrived at Salonika.
The ,Greek High Command ordered front-line positions to be held at all costs, the troops not to attempt to follow up local successes.
The Italians in one sector were caught in a trap. Machine-gun nests mowed them down, upon which the local commander, taking advantage of the rout, pursued the enemy into Albania. .
There have been no air raids at Salonika. Fifty coasters lie immobilised in the harbour. Five hundred Italian residents have been rounded up. Germans are still free.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 18, 1 November 1940, Page 5
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