RECRUITING FOR GUERILLAS
GREEK ORGANISATION BROKEN UP (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) ATHENS, March 16. Greek police rounded up 39 men and eight women and announced they had broken up an underground guerilla and recruiting corps. The organisation was equipped with buses, lorries, motor-driven caiques, machine ships and small factories. It operated all over Northern Greece. Records seized revealed that more than £BOOO had been collected from Communists in Greek tOAvns.
Three hundred and fifty guerillas armed with heavy mortars invaded Axioupolis, a town north-west of Salonika, burntkl 10 houses, looted shops and kidnapped 1 civilians. Troops attacked them. The guerillas fled and were later ambushed, suffering considerable losses.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 133, 17 March 1948, Page 4
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