Late News NEW RIVER LINE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 39, 9 November 1940, Page 12

Late News NEW RIVER LINE

Extent Of Greek Withdrawal

ITALIAN PRESSURE

LONDON, November 8

Official military circles in London confirm the reports irum Greece that the Italians are continuing their pressure on the Epirus front.

It is now learned that at the coastal end of the front the Greeks have gone back 15 miles to the Akaruti River tinder heavy Italian pressure. This river runs with the sea parallel with the Kalamas River which is 15 miles to the north.

If the Italians are at. the Akarmi River as they claim, they have advanced approximately 20 miles into Greece at this point.

'Tlie Greeks have made a small advance toward a town just inside the Greek bonier and 12 miles south of Koritza, which is still said to be in Italian hands though menaced by the Greeks.

The recent report that crack Italian Alpine troops had been ent oft by the Greeks seems to be confirmed to some extent by the arrival of some hundreds of Italian prisoners at a. Greek military centre.