STORMS DEFIED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 8

STORMS DEFIED

THE FIGHTING GREEKS

ITALIANS THRUST BACK

SNOW STILL FALLS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, January 15,

Defying snowstorms and the intense cold, the Greeks continue to thrust back the Italians in the Klisura area. According to the Athens correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," the somewhat improvised nature of the Italian counterattacks indicates desperate efforts to regain the strategic advantages sacrificed as a result of the loss of Klisura.

Activity has been resumed in the Pogradetz sector, but the weather conditions are largely keeping both armies snowbound. Frostbite is causing a large percentage of the Greek casualties.

The Athens correspondent of "The Times" says there is unlikely to be any sensational news from the Albanian front for some days. Snow is again falling, though the weather has greatly improved in the coastal sector, in which artillery actions have continued for the last two days, while the Greeks scored a certain advance.

The Italians' retreat north from Klisura is no longer a flight. They are resisting from previously prepared positions fortified with double rows of barbed wire. Here and also to the east" in the Moskopolis sector Italian aircraft attempted to aid their field troops, but very small results were achieved because it was difficult to distinguish Italians from Greeks in the confused terrain.