REBELS ROUNDED UP
LOOTING AND BURNING HEADQUARTERS RAIDED (10 am) ATHENS, March 16. Three hundred and fifty guerrillas armed with heavy mortars invaded Axioupolis, a town north-west of Salonika and burned 10 houses, looted shops and kidnapped civilians. Troops attacked them and the guerrillas fled but they were later ambushed and suffered considerable losses. The Greek police rounded up 39 men and eight women and announced that they had broken up an underground guerrilla and recruiting corps. The organisation was equipped with buses, lorries, and motor-driven caiques, machine shops and small factories, and it operated all over Northern Greece, Records seized revealed that over £BOOO had been collected from Communists in Greek towns.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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