GREEK ARMY CLAIMS BIG VICTORY OVER GUERRILLAS
(Rec. 3.5 p.m.) ATHENS, Aug. 22. General Stelios Kitrilakis, deputy chief of staff, announced that the Grammos victory was such a blow to the guerrillas that suppression of the rebellion could be anticipated by the end of 1948. The American Press correspondent at Kozane quotes General Kitrilakis as saying that part of the Greek Army will hold Grammos while other sections attack the remaining guerrilla strongholds. General Kitrilakis estimated that 4000 of the 11,000 guerrillas in the Grammos area were killed or captured. It is believed that 1000 guerrillas are hiding in the area and that 1000 others have escaped to Albania.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 August 1948, Page 2
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