THE YUGOSLAV FRONT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1943, Page 7

THE YUGOSLAV FRONT

VIOLENT BATTLES RAGING

LONDON, September 23

. Violent battles are raging for the Yugoslav town of Susak, across the Italian border from Flume. The major part of the town is in the hands of the Yugoslav People's Army of Liberation, states an army communique broadcast by the Free Yugoslav radio. It adds that'guns at Susak are shelling the German positions in Fiume.

"Heavy fighting with the Germans is in progress in Bosnia along the line Bihac-Knin," the communique says. "A partisan detachment of 1000 men near Gomilja repelled an attack by forces of General Mikhailovitch, more than 2000 of whom were killed and 100 taken prisoner. Partisans in Slovenia destroyed five miles of the LjubljanaTrieste railway."

A correspondent in Cairo states that the successive victories of the northern partisan forces on the Yugoslav front have been the result of a German miscalculation. The Germans sent Croat quisling troops to garrison towns, and these immediately went over to the partisans with all their equipment. The troops are also making excellent use of Italian equipment which they gained after the armistice in Italy. The German counter-attacks east of the Dalmatian port of Split have been repulsed. The partisans, using fleets of fishing boats, claim to have captured a number of Dalmatian islands.

Their interruption of the Germans' Trieste route to the Adriatic repre? sents a substantial triumph for General Eisenhower.