MORE SUCCESSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1940, Page 7

MORE SUCCESSES

The Greek Advance

TOWNS CAPTURED ON BOTH WINGS

LONDON, November 24,

News of the latest Greek successes is contained in a message from Athens reporting the capture of the town of Moskopolis, about 15 miles north-west of Koritza. This means that the Greeks are only 20 miles from Pogradetz, on the Yugoslav border, towards which some of the retreating Italians are being pushed.

Earlier in the day there had been news of the capture of the village of Konispolis, which is just over the Albanian border near the Adriatic coast.

This morning's Greek communique had reported that the advance was continuing along the whole front, and with the capture of Moskopolis on the right wing and Konispolis on the extreme left it seems unlikely that a single Italian soldier remains on Greek soil outside a prison camp.

The exact point to which the Greeks have penetrated into Albania in the centre is not yet known in London, but the latest report about this part of the front is that the Italian rearguards are making a stand in some villages a little way over the border while the main body is reforming its line of battle some distance behind it.

On the coastal wing the Greeks, after capturing Konispolis, will probably push northwards on the road to Argyrokastron. The further the Greeks advance themselves the more difficult it becomes for -the Italian air force to exert its fullest resistance, for' the three Italian aerodromes in Koritza are now in Greek hands, while the aerodrome at Argyrokastron is threatened.

The Associated Press says the Greeks are reported to have occupied heights dominating Argyrokastron and to have made important advances in other sectors.

According to the British United Press, Greek forces have already entered Pogradetz. The capture of Moskopolis is said to have been effected by Greek calvary, who, it was thought, took a westward route from Koritza in order to cut off any Italians retreating from that region to the coast and to trap them against the Yugoslav border, to which the main body of Greeks are advancing by the direct northward route.

It is reported from Athens tonight that a new municipal council has been set up in Koritza consisting of eleven Greeks, four Albanians, and the Mayor of the town. Greek authorities have taken steps to look after the food supply of the town. The streets of Koritza are now thronged with Greek troops, and the Italian occupation is recalled by torn portraits of Signor Mussolini and disfigured Italian notices pasted on the walls. In their flight the Italians left all their papers in the administrative offices they had set up. and among the documents found were proclamations in Italian and Greek intended for use among the people of Greece.