GREEK FORCES CONTINUE ADVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 284, 29 November 1940, Page 8

GREEK FORCES CONTINUE ADVANCE.

INTO ALBANIA. i Italian Retreat Becomes Race For Sea. I nitml Pi'fss Assiicia t inn.- <'"p.vriijht. (Heel. l.:so p.m.) Lo\fx>\. Nov. 28. Latest reports indicate that the (in-ok Army is com) inning its ml vance in Albania despite Italian rearguard actions. Official circles maintain the reM'i \ e winch lias characterised predictions of the la-t few days. The Italian ret tea tin All>ii nhi is becoming ji i ii(■<• fur the *ca. and Hrit i-H " ,; '"cck a irmen are excelling themselves in i>w irlls confusion the retrcat ing enemy. The remnants of the two Italian divisions (in the coastal plain are still II CI it i. i« 1 position. «(U> the Athens eoi re-.|M,ndeiii (.f the "I>aily Telegraph."' The (.recks drove Irack Italians aftcinptti» resist beyond Delvino. while | Italian bombers in (his sector inetlec tively raided Uridines on the road to .Fa lii ii.i . .V military corres| M >ndcut say* the Italian ('liief of -the (leueral Staff. Maivhal I'.idoolio. arrived at Tirana on Tuesday and conferred with several hiu'h oMiccr-. l'adotrlio aims to regroup the Italian armiew on a new defence line, but. as the result, ot the course of tin 1 operations this regrouping now ap|>cars to U- ini|Mtsnil>le. Naval Base Moved North. Badoglio is reported to have transferred t lie naval 'hasp from Valona to Singjin (San tiiovanni). at the north end of Albania. The are stated to have licj-iin to withdraw troops from Saranda (otherwise Santi Quaranta). which is cut off from Argvrokastl'on. and only the coastal road is open for the retreat from Saranda. According to Italian air force prisoners, Mussolini is bitterly critical of the incapacity of the air operations in Albania. Airmen who operated against. Patra«. Corfu and •lanina were reservists recruited from a civil air line. Ala I.ittoria. who were well acquainted with (Jreece. hilt «-ome of the regular Italian Air Force pilot-* mistakenly ibomlx'd Monastic and other Yugoslavian dist rii-t s. Italian officer* captured on the central front complain that their cavalry cut their own lir«t line, and it also appears that Italian artillerymen were ordered to tire on their own infantry to prevent their retreat. (leneral Soddti is reported to have ordered that Ar/yroka stron must be defended to the last.