GREEK REBELS SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES
(10.45 a.m.) ATHENS, March 6. Government forces which have pinned down a guerrilla formation in the Kerdyllion Mountains, about 40 miles north-east of Salonika, have killed 140 and captured 149 of the rebels.
In Peloponnesus another guerrilla band has been completely wiped out. Sixty-three rebels were killed, 46 captured and 21 surrendered.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 6
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57GREEK REBELS SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 6
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