HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN GREEK ARMY AND GUERRILLAS

Evening Star, Issue 26154, 16 July 1947, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN GREEK ARMY AND GUERRILLAS

{Rec 9am.)' LONDON, July 15, . Greek regulars and * guerrillas' are locked in stiff fighting in the Katpaki area about 13 miles north. of janina, says the British .United^. Press correspondent at -Athens.;'Military authorities claipled that the guerrillas were surrounded and their advance halted in a battle .at r-Kal-paki, Believed to be more serious' than ■; the original attack in the Kdnitza region, which was probably. A diverpion- , ary effort. _ ■ •' . The- rebels are believed to, he trying to Capture Janina . itself.'; 4 The Navy Minister, M. 'Yenizelgs, said' fighting was continuing in West Kouitza, but -the. city wns definitely out of .danger. The Greek Minister of Public Security, General Zervas, reported i that some guerrillas fighting in the Epirus region were wearing red arm; bands with the hammer and sickle. Many had red jackets and pome the Soviet star. , • - Reuter’s. correspondent at Athens says Moslems of Albanian origin from Epirus who fled from Greece into Albania at the time of the-liberation have been identified among tlie guerrillas. The Soviet licensed news agency in Berlin claims ..that the guerrillas have captured Konitza: