THE TABLES TURNED
Greeks Become The Invaders
ITALIANS DRIVEN BACK
LONDON, November 17.
All reports from Greece indicate that the attack of the Italians has been turned against them with such effect that it is now the invaders who are up against invasion. Along the whole front of 150 miles they are moving back, and it is reported that the fiercest fighting is going on around the town of Koritza, nine miles inside Albania.
An Italian counter-attack is said to have been repulsed, and the Italians driyen back with heavy losses. 4i
One message says that 130 Italian tanks which were trying to cut through Yugoslavia from Koritza have been cut off by Greek forces driving from the east. An Athens report says that the (Greeks have captured twelve more field guns., The Italians are delightfully vague. They say that on the Greek front attacks and counter-attacks took place yesterday and were particularly heavy in the sector of the 9th Army. This unwillingness to discuss the situation is only natural, since they can no longer conceal the fact that the invasion, so far, is nothing- but a dismal failure. ■ .»
also bombed other points in the Gulfl of Arta and Patras.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 7
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