FIGHTING IN JUGOSLAVIA
PARTISAN SUCCESSES REPORTED (8.0. W.) RUGBY. Oct. 28. A Jugoslav communique reports that a strong German detachment which landed on the island of Brae, near the Jugoslav port of Split, on October 21 has been routed. German attacks on the liberated, regions of Sandjak and Montenegro have been repulsed. In Slovenia also. German motorised units have failed to regain ground. German tanks which got as far as Novomesto were cut off and encircled and they suffered heavy losses. Towns on the Jugoslav-Italian frontier were raided by partisans, who destroyed railways and a factory, and cut off telephonic communication with Ljubljana. A communique from the Peoples Jugoslav Army of Liberation states: “In Bosnia, Montenegro, and Slovenia we renelled heavy German attacks. One of our units in Montenegro killed a Montenegrin traitor, Stan islau. and also caotured a quisling general. Djukanovitch. Partisans in the enemy rear destroyed a large textile _ factory and the railway line at Skofjaloka.” British infantry units are now operating with the Jugoslav partisans, according tq the Ankara correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper “Allehanda.” <
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24092, 30 October 1943, Page 5
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