ALBANIAN LANDING

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 4, 29 September 1944, Page 5

ALBANIAN LANDING

First Communique Issued LONDON, September 27. The first “Balkans communique” issued by the Allies says: “Seaborne and airborne troops from the land forces of the Adriatic are now operating on a wide front in Adriatic country, including Albania and the islands off Yugoslavia.’ The German news agency says that the Allies made landings on a board front along the Dalmatian coast. They met stubborn resistance, and- heavy fighting is in progress. The Rome correspondent of the Associated Press says that the size of the force operating in Albania is not disclosed, but the Adriatic land force operations have been of the commando type, involving small numbers of troops. Yugoslav headquarters announced that Yugoslav troops, with naval units, occupied the island of Pag, off the Croat seaboard. Pag is nearly 40 miles loug and is one of the largest of the Dalmatian islands. - Significant Allied operations appear to be in progress along the eastern seaboard of the Adriatic. For 14 days now, landing craft of the Royal Navy, and covered and fortified by destroyers and light coastal craft, have been operating among the southern Dalmatian islands, supplying troops and Partisans engaged in harassing the Germans’ withdrawal. In this connexion the Balkans Air Force of the Adriatic is at present operating on a wide front in Adriatic country.