SERBIAN GUERRILLAS
AXIS FORCES HARASSED. LONDON. February 16. The “Daily Telegraph’s" Istanbul correspondent says: “General IVLkhailovitch's guerrillas fought Axis occupation forces for 48 hours on the outskirts of Lebane, southwards o! Nish. Serbians bombed Bulgarian military objectives, also lines of'communication. Serbian losses \yere lot. Guerrillas are again active in sotuh and south-west Serbia. I hey aftac.s.ea and severely damaged a German-Bul-garian military train on the BelgraaeNish main line. The train was 'W"up until the arrival ol rescue. parties. Another party ol' General Mikhailoviteh’s men in north-cast Serbia aesiroved a Magyar patrol, fhe Hungarians, in retaliation, killed 4a mrmcent Serbs in Novlsad. . In reply to General Mikhailovitch’s promotion. General Neditch, the pro-Axis leader m. Jugoslavia has similarly promoted colonel BaLitci., head of"thc State Police, to Uie rank of General. General Babitcn is actually a German, named Schindler.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1942, Page 7
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