GREEK FORCES
STRATEGIC TOWN OUTFLANKED
SOUTHERN OFFENSIVE
ENEMY DEFENCES BROKEN
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received December 30, 9.30 a.m.)
LONDON, December 29,
A Greek communique states that local operations of limited scope were successful and prisoners were tr.ken. The Ministry of Security stated that Italians retreating from Khimara took ten prominent Greek citizens as hostages. A correspondent of the Belgrade newspaper "Politika" on the frontier stated that Greek advanced forces penetrated close to Lin. on Lake Ochrida, launched an offensive at 2 a.m. on December 28, and continued to attack relentlessly until they were
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 7
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