FIGHTING. IN GREECE

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25581, 24 August 1948, Page 5

FIGHTING. IN GREECE

GUERRILLAS SAID TO BE TRAPPED suppression of revolt “BY END OF YEAR” (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 23. Reuter’s Salonika correspondent says that Greek Government forces last Bight were reported to have occupied the frontier line along the GreekAlbanian border, cutting the guerillas’ escape route to Albania. General Stelios Kitrilakis, the Greek Deputy-Chief of Staff, yesterday announced that the victory in the Grammes mountains was such a blow to Jhe guerrillas that the suppression of uie rebellion could be expected by the end of the year. The correspondent of the Associated "ess at Kozane quotes General Kitri“Kis as saying that part of the Greek A*my will hold the Grammos area while other sections attack the remaining guerrilla strongholds. General Kitrilakis estimated that ■yuu of 11,000 guerrillas in the Gramduos area had been killed or captured. « believed that 1000 were hiding in we area, and that 1000 others had Scaped to Albania. A Greek Army communique yestersaid that troops in the northern sector attacked guerrillas, defending we Aliakmon bridge and were fightwe 1500 guerrillas at Kaminades. 10 .*® s north of Nestorian. Greek terrorist bands kidnapped wousands of children of all ages and I"F ce d them to fight or took them to oiner countries to be trained as ‘good yommunists.’ ” said Princess Theodora 2* Greece. who has arrived F°® Athens. Princess Theodora, who « the Duke of Edinburgh’s sister, is to Gordonstown. Scotland, th *Pi_“ er son i- s at school. She said w« the Greek Government had so far 24.000 children.

-Mr Simplon Marries Again.—Mr Aldrich Simpson, the former eusband of the Duchess of Windsor, remarried. His bride is Mrs Avril groson-Gower, whose marriage to dirL i ler Hugh Leveson-Gower was SS-jd last May. She was previously skv ♦ to a Russian . Prince ImeretinMr w h° m she was also divorced. T rLj itnpson who is a member of a th°^r On - stock hroking firm, has been l lmes previously married. The *L?= e nt Duchess of Windsor was his ■econd wife.—London, August 22.