Heavy Fighting Continues On Slovenian Front
(8.0. W. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY. March 14. In Slovenia, heavy fighting continues, states a Yugoslav partisans’ communique. Partisans derailed a train between Kranj and Skofja Loka, in the province of Banija. German tioops who tried to penetrate the liberated territory from the direction of Dvor were compelled towards Kostajnica.
Six German officers were killed and 12 wounded in Allied air raids against the island of Korcula. London observers note that although ti e Germans still coni'o 1 the main Ljubljana-Belgrade railway, Marshal Tito’s forces arc constantly harassing other railways, particularly those crossing Slovenia from Austria to Italy. No news has been received in London for a long time of activities of General Mikhailovich's guerillas. Their strength is not more than 50,000 outside, and although the Allies maintain missions with both guerilla organisation, the only reports of fighting are provided by Marshal Tito's forces.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1944, Page 5
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