GUERILLA WAR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 248, 30 July 1943, Page 3

GUERILLA WAR

ACTIVITIES IN YUGOSLAVIA. <£ * SIXTH CAMPAIGN BY GERMANS. FIGHT OVER COMMUNICATIONS. [N.Z. Pr&ss Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON. July 29. The Germans are preparing to launch a sixth campaign to mop up Yugoslav guerillas, reports the Inter-Allied Information Committee in London. The five previous campaigns left strong forces of guerillas intact, despite the employment of German dive-bombers and armoured fighting vehicles, and these guerillas are concentrating on disrupting road and rail communications. From June 25 to July ?> guerillas attacked the Zagreb-Belgrade railway daily. Tliej German forces are concentrating on artillery, planes and armoured fighting vehicles in Eastern Bosnia. Fighting is uoav centred on the fiver Drina between Serbia and Bosnia. On the Bosnian side it is particularly heavy in the vicinity of Zwornil, but heavy fighting also continues further west, in the Zavidovic area on the Sarajevo to Brod railway line, where Slovene guerillas are operating. The Germans evacuated Prnjavor, in central Bosnia, and gueiillas have taken over. Prnjavor is among the mountains in a coal and iron district and controls the road junctions. The Germans announce a reward of 100,000 marks for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of the guerilla leader.—British Official Wireless.