YUGOSLAVS SAFE
GUERRILLAS IN MONTENEGRO Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, June 26. Information reaching authoritative Yugoslav circles in Cairo; affirms that General Mikhailqvitch, the Yugoslav guerrilla leader, is safe with his men and carrying on the fight. This refutes Axis assertions that General Mikhailovitch, following a defeat of his forces'' 1n the mountains of Montenegro, had fled the country. A message from Ankara says that General Mikhailovitch is still leading the grim battle in southern Yugoslavia at the head of between 50,000 and 60,000 chetnik guerrillas, harassing vital railways in southern Yugoslavia, according to an authoritative Yugoslav source. The chetniks are still attacking after a two months' campaign by the eighth ' division of the Axis . punitive corps, which is determinedly trying to wipe out resistance. Guerrillas recently recaptured Klina, in Dalmatia. Fighting during the past month has taken place over a wide area. The Axis failed to bring General Mikhailovitch to a standstill fight, and .he is the master of a big stretch of mountain country flanking the main Yugoslav railway connection with Greece, Belgrade, Nish, and the Salonika line.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 5
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