GREEKS AT TEPELENI
REPORTED ENTRY
HARRYING OF BLACK SHIRTS
LONDON, January 13. According to reports from the Yugoslav frontier the Greeks entered Tepeleni after the; city had been evacuated by the Italians, who are retiring to the mountains in the north-west. The cream of the Italian army in Albania, including Mussolini's favourite Black Shirt reinforcements, are' still streaming desperately along the tortuous roads from Klisura. They are persistently bombed and machinegunned from, the sky and harried by tireless? Greek patrols. The Greek night communique referred to restricted patrol and artillery activity. A Government spokesman said that the Greeks made a surprise attack on Italian fortified positions arid captured 10 mortars, nine machine-guns, and other material. The retreating Italians left 40 ( dead. Elsewhere the Greeks captured seven officers and 114 men.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1941, Page 7
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