BANJALUKA BATTLE
HEAVY STREET FIGHTING
Rec. 11.20 a.m. RUGBY, January 4. i Very heavy street fighting is still j raging in the town of Banjaluka, in Bosnia, states a communique by the Yugoslav People's Army of Liberation. The enemy is offering strong resistance, attempting to stem the patriot units by using tanks and guns. Patriot artillery is successfully fighting enemytanks and shelling the aerodrome. Tha last pockets of enemy, resistance are now being systematically mopped up. Fighting is now in progress in the north-western part of the town, especially around the Palast Hotel, tha secondary school, and the main railway station. Marshal Stalin, in a reciprocal NewYear message to the Yugoslav Prime Minister, Puritch, said he was convinced that 1944 would be a year of new victories for the United Nations, and that the moment was not far distant when the Yugoslav people would ■achieve liberation from the yoke of Hitler's tyranny.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1944, Page 5
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